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(November 23, 2012) Photograph documents first record of an oncilla in Madidi National Park  A photograph taken by Wildlife Conservation Society scientists of a little known Bolivian cat species called an oncilla has won a BBC Wildlife camera-trap photo competition.  The photo, which won the New Discoveries category, documents the first known occurrence of this extremely rare spotted cat in Madidi National Park.  Oncillas occur across the Amazon and along the tropical Andes. About the size of ...

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(September 20, 2012) Oscar Loayza receives the Kenton Miller Award for 2012 Loayza is the Sub Director of WCS’s Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conservation Program JEJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA (Sept. 12) — Oscar Loayza of WCS’s Madidi Program in Bolivia has received the Kenton Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Areas Management at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Republic of Korea from Sept. 6-15. Loayza, the Sub Director of the WCS Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conserv...

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(September 03, 2012) In a ceremony held on August 23, the Regional Association of Organic Coffee Producers of Larecaja (APCERL), inaugurated its new dry processing coffee plant, as part of the activities of the project “Consolidating a model of integral and sustainable development of the coffee chain in Northern Tropical La Paz”, financed by USAID and executed with technical support of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The plant has been built in the pieces of land owned by the association, in the in...

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(August 24, 2012) The recent publication “Scientific knowledge and research priorities in Madidi National Park and Natural Area of Integrated Management” constitutes a significant contribution to the development of science and protected areas in Bolivia. It is the result of research conducted in the area, mainly in the last 15 years that the scientific community now makes available to Bolivian institutions and society. The effort of systematizing and analyzing information began in an expert workshop h...

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(June 20, 2012) On May 12th, in a community meeting or “Tanta Chawi” in the Sullka Llaxta Agua Blanca, the traditional authorities of the Marka Cololo Copacabana Antaquilla approved their Land Management Plan or Life Plan of the Marka that includes the plans of the Katantika, Cololo, Antaquilla, Nube Pampa and Puyo Puyoayllus or communities. Its development was supported by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The Marka Cololo Copacabana of Antaquilla is located in the ancient territory Pukin...

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