{"id":1822,"date":"2022-02-23T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:51:35","slug":"breve-historia-de-conservacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/breve-historia-de-conservacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Breve Historia de Conservaci\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The history of the defending and conserving Cocham\u00f3 Valley goes back decades of diverse efforts. One of the biggest challenges dates back to 2009, when the non-governmental citizen group Conservaci\u00f3n Cocham\u00f3 (2009-2012) was created to confront a hydroelectric project that wanted to exploit the Cocham\u00f3 Valley and its main tributaries. The organization, together with the community, achieved a reserve of Cocham\u00f3's River and all its tributaries for conservation and local use<\/a> by presidential decree during the first term of the Bachelet administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aun as\u00ed, las amenazas al r\u00edo Cocham\u00f3 y Puelo nunca dejaron de\u00a0 cesar. Grandes empresarios con afanes inmobiliarios y con proyectos de centrales hidroel\u00e9ctricas siguen hasta el d\u00eda de hoy tratando de intervenir estos lugares de belleza \u00fanica y con un alto valor de conservaci\u00f3n. En el Valle Cocham\u00f3 hay 8 mil hect\u00e1reas de Alerce, especies end\u00e9micas, tanto de flora y fauna, como la ranita de Darwin, vizcachas patag\u00f3nicas, pumas y otras especies t\u00edpicas del bosque templado o selva Valdiviana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is why, in 2017, the same people from Conservaci\u00f3n Cocham\u00f3, members of Puelo Patagonia<\/a> and new actors, owners, tour operators, friends and foreign collaborators to create the Organizaci\u00f3n Valle Cocham\u00f3, with the objective of developing responsible and sustainable tourism, creating a protected, collaborative and voluntary area for the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage of this international destination. Also in the U.S., another organization was formed, <\/strong>Friends of Cocham\u00f3<\/a>, <\/strong>by a group of international climbers that frequented the area and wished to help with efforts of conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The efforts required are enormous, both human and financial, especially when the threats of the construction of a road (by the same businessmen who destroyed the forest in the Manso) to the valley are getting closer and closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Destruction due to the construction of a road in the Manso Valley - the next valley south of the Cocham\u00f3 Valley. Now the same entrepreneur wants to build a road through the Cocham\u00f3 Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This place is known as the Yosemite of South America. It is a comparison that is light years away from what is being done and preserved here. It is exactly what we do not want to become. Just imagine Cocham\u00f3 Valley transformed into hectors of parking lots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yosemite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cocham\u00f3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Do you want Cocham\u00f3 to be like Yosemite, or do you want to be Cocham\u00f3?<\/strong>?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today, with the pandemic upon us, it has been more than demonstrated that the only thing we need is to leave nature alone and help in its restoration and conservation, especially in places as pristine as the Cocham\u00f3 Valley and its ancestral gaucho culture. With a road, the guachos livelihood is finished, the end of a deep cultural root and the beginning of an ecological catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pelluco Sandoval has lived all his life in Cocham\u00f3 working with his horses on the Cocham\u00f3 Valley trail, as does his son and grandson, and generations of other families before him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That is why we need your help in the protection of this place. We are all responsible to continue having a free, healthy and preserved Cocham\u00f3 Valley for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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La historia por la defensa y conservaci\u00f3n de los territorios del valle y r\u00edo Cocham\u00f3 se remonta a d\u00e9cadas de diversos esfuerzos. Uno de los mayores desaf\u00edos data del a\u00f1o 2009, cuando se crea la agrupaci\u00f3n ciudadana no gubernamental Conservaci\u00f3n Cocham\u00f3 (2009-2012) para confrontar un proyecto hidroel\u00e9ctrico que quer\u00eda explotar el Valle Cocham\u00f3 y sus […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-conservacion-cochamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vallecochamo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}