Isolation is also a problem for the Chaco’s Guanaco ( Lama guanicoe) in and around Córdoba, unable to reach their peers to the north and south. “The existing population is very residual, just a minimal number of individuals in and around the Córdoba province,” Tomás adds. Credit: Tomás Waller / FBA.Īs FBA President Tomás Waller explains, intervening is essential given that the area’s Chacoan Peccary – known by locals as chancho quimilero – are both highly threatened and cut off from populations elsewhere. Only 5% of Córdoba Province’s forests remain standing today and the Traslasierra National Park holds alone 229 bird species and dozens of mammal, amphibian and reptile species.
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The WLT partner’s plan is to fight back against logging and poaching via the Chaco Taguá Biological Corridor – a series of properties that will be purchased in the Córdoba province to link the Traslasierra National Park and Chancaní forest reserve. The first sighting of live individuals in Argentina’s Chaco around 1970 was not kind on the Chacoan Peccary: hunting and habitat destruction combined to push the species into Endangered status, with populations expected to halve within three generations.Ĭhacoan Peccary’s main vulnerability is its already restricted home habitat and this is precisely what FBA wants to change. These social boar-like mammals are so elusive they were first discovered via centuries-old fossil remains, a relic of a species scientists thought was long extinct. Those looking today for iconic species in need of urgent conservation intervention need to look no further than the Chacoan Peccary ( Catagonus wagneri). The proposal to create the Chaco Taguá Biological Corridor with support from our Buy an Acre programme will safeguard nature in a province where less than 5% of native forests remain.
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The Chacoan Peccary faces a future of stark decline worldwide but World Land Trust (WLT) partner Fundación Biodiversidad Argentina (FBA) has a plan to boost conservation.