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Construction of the fence is making amazing progress! See what you funded!Pictures from Andrés González. You can also see how the green part of the landscape moves from the grasses and herbs, whi...

Thanks to everyone who helped us reach our funding goal! I might get some press coverage this week, unfortunately a bit late for the fundraising, but nice nonetheless. I will put up links to any a...

We have reached our funding target! That means we can go ahead with the project on time!Just to catch you up with what we have been doing in the field to get ready, here I'll show you a few pictur...

This week I have been meeting with Adrien Lindon, who as I mentioned before did his MSc dissertation on Chilean attitudes to guanaco reintroductions. We were planning how to write up his dissertat...

I wanted to continue describing how we chose our research site. We liked the private reserve Altos de Cantillana because both the owner, Joaquín Solo de Zaldivar, and the administrator, Fernanda Ro...

In order to put the guanaco rewilding project in context, I asked my colleague Dr. Richard Ladle (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, and Oxford University) to write a guest post based on some r...

While talking to people in Chile about our project, we heard that there was a place on Ruta 5 (the highway going north from Santiago) where there were already guanacos in espinal. Intrigued, we lo...

Today I wanted to give some background on the diversity of habitats and species where this project is taking place.Central Chile, the mediterranean-climate zone of South America (one of 5 in the wo...