(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-09) Delgado Pugley, Deborah; Borg Rasmussen, Mattias
Fermín Chimatani Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut leader from Puerto Luz, Madre de Dios (Perú). He was twice president of the Executor of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve Administration Contract (ECA Amarakaeri). He is currently president of the National Association of Executors of the Communal Reserves Administration Contract (ANECAP). Recognized by the Peruvian state, Communal Reserves are direct use Protected Natural Areas. These represent an innovative initiative for the coadministration of conservation between indigenous organizations in the Peruvian Amazon and the National Service for Protected Natural Areas (SERNANP). In this interview, Fermín Chimatani Tayori shares his experiences as a key actor in conceptualizing and executing of this process.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-09) María Preda, Graciela; Ejarque, Mercedes; Lammel, Sofía; Pasetto, Florencia
Protected natural areas are traversed by conservation objectives and the dynamics of the populations inhabiting them. In El Tromen Park (Neuquén, Argentina) 30 families stay during the summer raising their animals. This article aims to reconstruct the trajectories and reproduction strategies of these peasant families and to know the environmental dynamics in the area and its problems. Identity and family trajectories are rooted within the socio-productive history of Neuquén’s northern area, and their forms of work organization are conditioned by being located in a protected space. The analysis was carried out mainly based on 15 semi-structured interviews with breeding families and key informants, and was complemented with a bibliographic review, compilation of official documents and interpretation of satellite images.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-09) Watson Jimenez, Ana; Davidsen, Conny
Expanding natural protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon compete with indigenous interests and resource extraction, in a dynamic process of endorsement and enforcement by local indigenous communities. The analysis presents a geographical case study of Peru’s emblematic Camisea gas extraction project in the Amazonian Lower Urubamba valley, Cusco. The focus is on two protected areas —Matsigenka Communal Reserve and Megantoni National Sanctuary— that were created alongside the gas project in the early 2000s, strategically supported by local indigenous communities. The study argues that the intersections of extractive and conservation agendas in Camisea have created ambiguous and novel spaces for the expression of local indigenous agendas, while neoliberal conservation territorial logics simultaneously limit them. This empirical analysis contributes to a deeper empirical understanding of Indigenous conservation priorities, political demands, and long-term strategies regarding territorial and legal categories of conservation, carefully negotiated within highly fragmented and weak formal institutional state arrangements in the Peruvian Amazon.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-09) Martínez-Medina, Santiago; Cottyn, Hanne; Garrido Corredor, Ana María; Kirshner, Joshua
Since the end of the 20th century, the emblematic Andean bear has become the protagonist of new scientific and political conservation agendas in the Colombian Andes. This article presents an ontological, multispecies, and historical analysis of the encounters between different forms of knowing nature in the páramo of Chingaza, a protected area east of the city of Bogotá. Programs for the conservation of the only species of bear described by taxonomists in South America have raised tensions with campesino communities who give accounts of the existence of two types of bears. Without seeking to “correct” the natural scientists who discard this possibility, this article aims to open up conceptual possibilities that understand the bear as a contact entity in an also multiple páramo.. Combining ethnographic and historical methods, we trace the longer and silenced trajectories behind the practices that support Andean bear conservation in Chingaza today. Observing a recent reorientation in scientific and institutional dialogues with peasant communities, we suggest a shift towards a ‘cosmopolitical’ conservation capable of articulating the worlds of the campesinos of the high mountains.