the xolos those biologists who
we work with animals
we say and justify that the species or
the group of species with which we
like to work is the cutest is the
who has the most important role in everything
the ecosystem and something is right if
it’s the mother, but it’s not there
absolutely nothing can beat a
bus and and if that gave them what else
can win that to a bear breeding
I have worked in the conservation of the bear
Andean for almost 18 19 years and what
I want to tell you here are two things 1
because it’s worth keeping this
species and why it is so fascinating
when I started the career of
biology in san simón in cochabamba in
the last year we have the thesis and I
I wanted to study monkeys I won easy
nothing with the world of the monkeys of the
the gorillas to go to africa to live
in Rwanda and work in the
investigation of the behavior of
gorillas but do not work with your
on the first day that I was in the field
doing my thesis in it is in the park
national carrasco in cochabamba
my partner and I two students from
last year
tired after being all day
in which walking carrying a backpack
approximately double my size we
we sat to watch the sunset and
It was a spectacular place
we had all the mountains and
We had the clouds was like walking
through the clouds and suddenly a noise
bird swims
we are going to reach that way suddenly the
Noise was stronger was weird was much
stronger of the turn and beautiful was
a bear that was coming out of the forest and
it was yesterday no longer makes the pasture
then he grabbed my table and
I say expensive expensive that we weighed noso ikeda
stops this and 19 years never in
you saw or did not know what a
large society small was aggressive not
it was aggressive that we were running
we had to escape screaming to take
photographs to notice we did not do anything
we throw and observe the animal that
luck was very close to us
as about 10 to 15 meters , but
we had a hill between us
after that the wind changes and
suddenly the poor one or they separate from two
legs and a weight when batting is held by the
better sense of smell of all the
animal kingdom can detect his wife
in spite of 13 kilometers where it is
the toilet starts and he looks at us and the poor
animal run terrified of well save
I know how he saw something horrible
then with my friend we are running to
see what it was that was making them
there and suddenly there was the first
indication of the presence of the Andean bear
in the carrasco national park that was
a cac the most spectacular poop that
someone could have seen in his life
shape color texture smell perfect in that
moment I said my trip to Rwanda is going
I no longer work with monkeys and much less
with gorilla and here I am
but my passage to Rwanda was changed to
another I went to england with my tickets
to the
to the united kingdom of britain
North Ireland
there I was with my suitcase and with some
words that do not fly always we
he told his granddaughters that is not to say
Travel girls do not stay in the house
travel know in the world
the world is so big and I was with
my suitcase two suitcases made and with
everything is hope and it was not after
a couple of years in which I gave myself
account for the obsession
compulsive from my grandmother so that her
granddaughters trip and leave and she told us
when in 1951 when my grandmother and my
grandfather pledged my grandfather the
took the angel doctor going the leads
to the house to Miss Yolanda Bustos
guzmán so that he knows the family
the sisters of my grandfather 3 waited for her
with a load of dad but not even
the pope papa chiquitita which
he has many little eyes that is very
difficult to peel that nobody peels and
a knife for suppose I suppose for
to know if my grandmother was really
good woman who deserved to do the
Dr. Liendo wife and my grandmother very
elegantly grabbed the knife what
put on the table and told them I do not
I’m here to peel potatoes and she
went to the room to talk to only one
family that were four men
obviously my grandmother was never the
preferred but here I am without stripping
potatoes but with this teaching of my
grandmother who runs my veins that runs my
power to travel from being able to know and
So the great journey begins on this journey
in which I compare my life with the
teaching with which I have the bear
start this way this is the
ancestor of the Andean bear was a giant
the bear of the florida peninsula and
approximately seven to five
millions of years ago when ni
even our species had left
of Africa is spiess in that kind
begins to fall joins the isthmus of
panama and what is useful and the entire region of
from North America and South America finally
joins and starts this migration the bear
from florida begins to fall and arrives
even to a new continent where
had three options compete with others
giants for the same habitat adapt
or perish
it is in this way that the use of
Florida finds a new niche and
begins to change that know a one
adaptation to the environment and it starts
to change a diet that was
exclusively vegetarian in which it was
a hunter in which he grabbed his
prey and I tore the flesh to a
more vegetarian and at that moment arises
the Andean bear
the Andean bear that colonizes all the
region of the tropical Andes of
venezuela colombia ecuador peru and
bolivia and in the same way
I think it has been my life as a girl
born in oruro with many insecurities
I had to learn, I had to
learn not only to speak to the front
to the people in front of the people which
still mates oriza but also do
other roles like singing the macarena
forward of 200 people to be able
get funds for students to
that they can travel to is the power
be in front of people and power
discuss why we have to keep the
bear and that way the jimena very shy
the jimena very insecure the jimena that the
terrorist talk and he still has
history has to breathe three times
before going on stage like this and here
I’m me and again I’m scared to death
by thousands for thousands of years the bear
Andean has helped shape the Andes is
one seed dispersers why it
consider the gardener
the gardener of the Andes in the helps
regenerate forests
if you are not you that start to collapse
during all these years of having
studied ecology the biology of
this species and be able to determine which
are the threats of this species the
which are three
I have come to the conclusion that this
species has the main enemy in
us the fear that we have
is the fear of this one to this one the wolf
fierce or this case to the soy producers
fact that this species no longer exist
many places
there are currently less than 3,000 bears
in Bolivia and the numbers is very possible
that go decreasing
the threats are the loss of
climatic change habitat and what I
I have told people it kills people
people kill him because he is afraid of him and
it is very possible that if not if not
We correct those errors in the
following years is possibly that you
you can not see it anymore in life
wild
my commitment as a biologist and as
professional since this species
survive
not only because it’s a cute species
and captivating not because of the role it has in
the ecosystem
when we remove an element from the
ecosystem in the ecosystem that give a
imbalance and in this case when
we remove the main carnivore there
imagine that it is a pyramid
we remove the main carnivore and everything
the ecosystem collapses
at this moment we are working here
in tarija we are working in the north
from tarija on the river pillay to that river
pillay where people and people live
that kills him
not because effectively
Kills your cattle or eats your corn but
which is usually because of fear but my
project and what we are doing in
this moment is that the people and the
bears and other large carnivores can
coexist however my commitment that
had with the first bear that seen in
1999 in Cochabamba goes much further
goes much further because the power
share this with valentina and gym
with marcia cohn with camila with emiliano
with vittorio and with all these children
that are behind me they make me give
much more strength to be able to be
to be here that these children every
Once I tell them the story of the
poop are absolutely fascinated is
possible if I keep pushing them a little
more than any of these is a
biologist and much better I can to
that can investigate the bears but what
that I always try to keep
tell them and give them what they
make them do it with passion that everyone
the days is a day of adventure
every time he comes he asked them have
something good that has happened and in your school
tell me something that has not been very good in
your school because they have to
feel passion that passion that I
I have every time I talk about the cac is the
inspiration and in fact here is the
first tasting of the Andean bear in tarija
I can not show you in the same way
because it’s a scientific sample that goes
to be analyzed to know what the
Andean bear
here in paris
a couple of weeks ago there was a great
fire in the reserve of sama already
early last year when
we were investigating the presence of
Andean bear here in the department of
tarija
we were lucky to be able to talk to
a person who lives in the southern part of
of sama’s reservation and he told me
that when he was a child he remembers
that they killed a mosso and that happened
50 years ago
50 years ago it is possible that the last
bear that could have prevented sama died
if there had been bears in sama it’s very
many of them may have
dead burned but as has happened in
other places
the bears would have returned and they would have
returned to disperse the seeds and
other sites and be able to regenerate regenerate
and restore your home to a principle they
I said because it was important I was going to
say because we have to help
keep the bears and why they are so
fascinating how easily I hope that
they have to have happened is that
passion that beauty of kind but it’s
There is also the reason why it is worth
worth conserving bears the other
they are helping us to give a great
lesson
we can restore sama and it is
in our hands is in each of
these
each of these has canne seeds
which is that we have collected them from
cacas bears do not be afraid not
They smell perfect but what I smell
I want you to see that they have in their
hand is that all of you can be
bears for a day
thank you very much
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