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Ponte Academic Journal
Oct 2017, Volume 73, Issue 10

OVERPOPULATION OF VICUNAS IN PROTECTED AREAS: Alternative or disadvantage for the tourist sustainability of moors

Author(s): Raul Tamayo Soria ,Maria Fernanda Viteri, Diana E. Paez Q., Cristina Paez Quinde, Alicia Porras Angulo, Ruth Infante Paredes

J. Ponte - Oct 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 10
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.10.42



Abstract:
The current project is based on the necessities of the environment in the social environmental line, the Environment Ministry (MAE) as well as the national system of protected areas (SNAP) regulatory bodies in which the impact study of conservation management of reintroduced species inside the fauna production reserve of Chimborazo. This is a feasible project due to the problematic that it possesses and the importance of saving the moors ecosystem as well as the species that live in it not losing the sustainable tourist potential that the protected areas have in Ecuador. Through a study of environmental impact with a transect tool it is possible to measure the overpopulation of the camelid and make a management brochure with benefits for the communities to improve not only a sustainable tourism as the caring of the species but also domesticate this species which is the only one of the camelids family that has not been domesticated for a major benefit and a social environmental benefit too.
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