📋 Tender Overview
The provinces of San Antonio de Putina and Lampa concentrate the largest population of this emblematic wild camelid.The National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), an agency attached to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), reported that the department of Puno registers an estimated population of 46,745 vicunas (Vicugna vicugna), according to the results of the V National Vicuna Census.
The provinces of San Antonio de Putina, with 9,477 specimens, and Lampa, with 8,991, concentrate the largest population of this wild camelid. In San Antonio de Putina, the largest presence is located in the districts of Putina, Pedro Vilcapaza, Ananea and Quilcapuncco, while in Lampa it is concentrated in Santa Lucia, Paratia, Ocuviri and Vila Vila.
The technical administrator of SERFOR Puno, Elmer Ventura Flores, highlighted the population growth registered in the region. In the 2012 census, Puno reported 38,673 vicunas. This new result shows a significant increase and will allow us to strengthen actions aimed at guaranteeing their conservation and sustainable management in the long term, he noted.
The execution of the census, carried out last October, involved the deployment of 15 census brigades, made up of observers, registrars and local guides from committees, associations and communities. The teams traveled through areas of difficult access and areas of natural presence of vicunas, reaching altitudes greater than 5,000 meters above sea level, facing adverse weather conditions.
During field work, the brigades also recorded signs of poaching in border areas with Bolivia, as well as the presence of wild dogs, identified as a direct threat to vicuna populations. Faced with this, Ventura Flores called on the competent authorities to join the installation of the Regional Forestry and Wildlife Control and Surveillance Board, in order to strengthen protection actions.
In Puno, the management of the vicuna is carried out under the modalities of semi-captivity (with a fence) and wild life (without a fence). Currently, the Technical Forestry and Wildlife Administration (ATFFS) Puno reports 110 Management Declarations for the sustainable use of fiber, an activity that benefits more than 6,700 people, including peasant communities, associations, committees and local producers.
