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Contact Information:

Telephone (New Zealand):       

+64 3 364 2378

FAX (New Zealand):

+64 3 364 2758

 

Postal address (Dr Tom Cochrane):  

Dept. of Civil and Nat. Resources

University of Canterbury

Private Bag 4800

Christchurch,

New Zealand

 

www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/cochrane

Purpose for preserving:

This region, located 90km south of the city of Riberalta offers a unique mixture of savannas and forests which is prone to logging and over grazing due to the recent easy access by road.  It is of local interest to avoid degradation of these lands, however it is also of importance to make them productive in a sustainable manner.  Unique bird species have also been discovered in these lands.  Wildlife includes panthers "tigres", capibaras, monkeys, etc...

El Carmen:  Due to Bolivian Law that requires the land to be productive in order to maintain them, a system of organic ranching has been implemented in these savannas.

Organic ranching - free grazing cattle in natural savannas without injections of hormones or anti-biotics.  A balance for the sustainability of the natural savannas is maintained by adequately managing the number of cows allowed to graze in some parts of the savanna.  Read more in the document below:

Introduction to El Carmen in PDF (in Spanish)

El Choare:  An effort is on the way to declare El Choare a nature Reserve with selective extractivism.  The forest is preserved as is, while allowing the selective extraction of products such as Brazil nuts.  Read more in the documents below:

Introduction to El Choare in Adobe PDF (in Spanish)

Management plan for El Choare (in Spanish)

Interested in doing research in this region??  Please contact us at reserve@agteca.com

Photo Gallery: (all photos taken by T.T. Cochrane)

El Carmen - Aerial View #1 Aerial photo taken from Piper Supercub of the Geneshuaya river and the base camp. Notice airstrip to the left.	El Carmen - Aerial View #2 Photo of river and mixture of forests and savannas in the region.	El Choare - Black and White Image of collection of brazil-nuts under large Castaña tree in El Choare.	Piper SuperCub Used for aerial photos and to travel to the reserves.
Main Road to Reserves The road is now functioning most of the year.	Aerial View #3 Road, savannas and forests	Aerial View #4 Road and savannas. Forest in background.	Potrero
Orchard Fruit trees (Goiaba and Cashu) near visitors residence.	Rio Geneshuaya View of the river.
			Potrero
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                                 Last modified: November 25, 2009