[Music]
we’ve all had a special place in
our childhood a place that at
remembering it does not generate a feeling of
peace and joy that gives us strength and
which in many cases has even
taken to be who we are today I’m going
to ask you to remember that special place
for you remember all the
details the sounds the colors and
keep the feeling that this generates
memory
he is Americo Americo is son of Luis
and of rosa who are commoners shepherds
and farmers
America was born and grew up in the mountains
together with his 10 brothers with whom
they helped their parents to cultivate
potatoes and take care of the flames
when we met Americo he had 12
years and already lived in the city for
be able to go to school
his big dream was to buy a
bicycle to get more
early to classes
This is the special place of Americo
this is the place that he remembers and
full of peace, happiness and strength
a few years ago we were lucky to
meet the family of america in this
so special place one day we went up to the
community help them lower the flames
to town
we walk for four hours talking
with america who started whom
he walked happy erect happy and then
as we got to the city something happened
strange americaic moved away from the group
he shrugged I got the
hood and the smile of the
expensive
a few minutes later as we
We were approaching the first streets of
town
a classmate from his school who was
out there scream loud and clear
stinks
loves at that moment the special place of
Americo stopped being special and happened
of being a place that fills you with
happiness and pride make a place that
he was ashamed to the point of wanting
forget it forever that ‘s the
reality of thousands of children in the Andes
Peruvian and traditional societies
Worldwide
in the modern world this paradise is not
socially accepted to and tradition
the culture the flames agriculture are
symbol of poverty of attraction and its
development
however in the time of the Incas the
llama was such an important animal that
It was even considered sacred the
flame was the engine of the economy
Inca was the only animal capable of
carry all the resources on your back
necessary from one side to the other the
tahuantinsuyo
but today the flame lacks value that
it happened during the time of the conquest
Spanish animals were introduced as
donkeys mules and horses and replaced
the use of flames for the work of
load
in addition, a large part of the
indigenous population and with it the
knowledge that the Incas had
Good parenting practices
calls
90% of the population of flames
disappeared and the few that remained
were left behind to the most
far from the Andes
these flames come reproduction
among them for almost 600 years and today in
day we have an animal that is very
small does not have the strength and size
to serve as a pack animal and for
Now mules are used and not
calls
now it’s worth rescuing the use of
call and seek to have an animal again
big and strong
yes
this is a landscape of the mountain range
urubamba
there lives Americo and all his family
this mountain range is a privileged place
throughout Peru for its great
unique biodiversity around the world
this mountain range has great value
touristic for its scenic beauty
the great network of ancestral roads its
easy access and is generating more
tourism
every year is even one of the five
most valued destinations in the world to
hiking the increase of the
tourism is generating more and more
demand for pack animals such as
mules that can carry the material of
tourists camp
the mules are an excellent animal of
charge and the agencies to be able
supply the demand for tickets in
trucks and entering them into the ravines to
work but the problem with the mule is
that generated a great environmental impact
the impact on the earth of a mule
It can be up to ten times greater than
of the human being
when walking in parallel and despite the
growing tourism the family that lives in
these streams continue to live in
extreme poverty and they do not have
job opportunities due to lack of
training so they are forced
to migrate to a larger town looking for
health education and work that rarely
they are in front of these two
social and environmental problems exist
a solution with the flames a
sustainable solution over time
the great value of the flame
besides being a native animal load
and of great cultural value is that it is a
animal completely adapted to
mountain ecosystems and is eco-friendly
the flame for example has its hooves
like pads when walking not
erodes the roads unlike the
hard helmets of the mules calls her as
a variety of plants and shrubs
so it hits – in one or the other
species the flame have
teeth that allow pruning the plants
when eating without uprooting it
unlike the mule that starts the
root the llama also excretes in a
just place keeping the roads
clean
unlike the mule that messes up
all the roads and finally the flame
it has a digestion so efficient that
can eat up to seven times less than
what a mule needs to be
healthy a good llama well raised
fed and trained they could charge
almost like a mule without harming
our ecosystems and generating work
local
if we recover the good practices of
breeding of llamas
the high Andean lifestyle can be
profitable and sustainable and that yes it is born
the project calls for the project and
amapá seeks to rescue the use and
raising of the flames in the sector
tourism as a cargo animal to be able
well protect the ecosystems of
mountain and generate development in
high Andean communities
but in order to start we had to
show that it was possible to work
with the flames and for that we think
implement a call service trek
that is, walk with flames
the first person who believed in the
project was Mr. Luis the father of
america he had seen from very
young as the tourists impressed
with their flames and they believed the potential of
to be able to work with them when they
we have our idea
Mr. Luis told us if I want
work with mile more excited that
day we told him perfect because he did not
low tomorrow and we started to rehearse
how could the so-called trek be
he looked and he leaves us they do not call me they do not come down
from the mountain to bakaj as we will do
then there we realized that both
Mr. Luis like other families that
they wanted to work with their flames not
they trusted in their ability to achieve it and
we should look for a way to
generate that confidence
it was there that they gave us up up or it was
the first flame of the project we had
with the other six months in our house
he trains us we go out to walk by
the streets of urubamba with him and the
people looked at us as if
we were crazy but out of a
time they realized that what
we are achieving
the flame walked with us this
motivated the families of the
communities took the first step and they
dare to start lowering their flame
community
after this they started a series of
anecdotal trials in which
we invite people to come for a walk
with the flames of the community
the flames were planted on the ground not
they wanted to advance they ran for all
sides spit us kicked it was a
disaster but little by little we achieve
implement the call service trek
to the point that we launched it on tripadvisor
From there the comuneros began to
earn income with your llamas and many
more families were encouraged to participate
of the project
some families with the income
generated bet to buy
better flames and america could finally
buy the bike he wanted to
get to class earlier
his friends from school started to see
with other eyes
the flames this project started with two
families from two different communities and
now we are working with 40 families
of ten different communities
this model of work allowed the
family generate the confidence that
they needed in themselves and in their
animals and now they are ready to
work to improve the flames of everything
the sector
that means we’re already
implementing vaccination programs
good breeding practice workshops
of flames selective breeding between
other issues of camelid management very
important
However, there is still a lot to do
we need more and more mere
better flames that can supply the
amount of demand that there is in the area
by pack animals so that really
we can reduce the impact that is
generating the project has grown and
we are currently working alliances
in the long term that allow us to respond
to the interest of all the comuneros for
that if in ten years all the families
can provide freight services with
you call all the agencies that operate
in the sector and thus be able to ensure a
Responsible and inclusive tourism
on the other hand we have generated alliances
with seven community schools for
provide environmental education to children
of the llaneros so that they
can empower themselves from this project and
know the value of their streams
we are also implementing the park
flame flame park is a
space that will allow us to give
greater visibility of the project and generate
continuous training for
comuneros
after four years of work
america can achieve again
remember your special place with pride and
joy
he tells us that when I finished the
school wants to work with its flames and
not only that the children of all
Llaneros participating in the project
respond cheerfully to this question what
they want to be when they grow up
he said and to mere thank you
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