00:04A camera was left standing in front of these mountains when no one else could stay and wait.
00:09The regional autonomous corporation of Cundinamarca recovered the material this year and among the
00:14The files showed the Osandino; the image confirms he was there, but what it doesn't say on its own is...
00:22where it came from, how many bears roam this area, or where it went afterwards to get closer to those
00:28questions we set out following their trails through the mountains of Manda in Palmar Arriba there are previous records of
00:45A study of the species' occupation places this area within a corridor that continues towards
00:50The party in Boyacá, the meat also links the El Palmar sector with areas where bears are present.
00:56In Machetá, Guatavita, and La Calera, we talk about a connection between forests and mountains, not a route.
01:04We can determine what we can attribute to the animal in these images; among those forests are the farms
01:09Where farmers live and work, the Andean bear roams forests and highlands to feed itself.
01:17Part of what it eats are plants and fruits; as it moves it disperses seeds and helps to renew
01:22The forest, therefore, its presence matters much more than just the photograph on the blanket; besides that
01:31The movement occurs near places where domestic animals pass; there the most intense part begins.
01:36This story is difficult because, to be honest, I haven't seen the bear head-on or from any angle.
01:43but
01:44I've seen them done by the other one, but in other distant places, but in the same area downwards towards the
01:51on the Boyacá side, but around here other colleagues and friends have said they've seen it.
02:03seen
02:04Jose Ignacio Gomez has been around here his whole life in Mantagranda, and that's why we want to protect him.
02:11Upstairs in their home, the discussion about the bear doesn't begin with a conservation statistic; we live here.
02:17My brother Álvaro and my 97-year-old mother and I have lived here our whole lives, and
02:25bear up me
02:26I see that it's whether it's done any harm or not, but yes, well, I had to take one out from there.
02:31the cattle but never the
02:32I did see that it had eaten animal bones, the animal, if I was going to put salt on it and they ran away, no
02:39They were waiting for me
02:40So we decided to take it out and looked around; other neighbors were talking about injured or dead animals and were afraid.
02:46Luis Álvaro Gómez, president of the Mantagrande board, knows their stories through the children.
02:52He also distinguishes between what he has heard and what he has been able to verify, given the concerns of the livestock farmers.
02:58Wherever the bear is, those who have seen it are concerned because they say...
03:05that
03:06It's carnivorous, and when there are young, it attacks livestock. I've already seen damage on several properties, although on the part of
03:15I haven't seen it like that in my own life, but according to them, that's what the bear is.
03:21cause
03:21That damage, when they go there and find it, they say it drags them towards the ravine areas.
03:29The fact that a bear appears on camera does not prove that it attacked a bovine; each case requires a different investigation.
03:34Technical review: the answer begins with small decisions about the land
03:53For example, Maximiliano Maecha talks about fencing off the meadow and leaving a space next to the stream.
03:58who have supported us, have given us electric saws, where they have given us poles, they have given us tape for
04:07They fenced in our meadows properly and gave us a panel with their machines with everything necessary for this
04:17The facilities have given us many things to be able to knit our animals, thanks to Rojales.
04:24They and all those who have shown interest in this project in the three villages, the project of the
04:31The government and the regional government are working with 29 properties to protect livestock and restore areas of
04:36Vegetation, camera traps help to confirm the presence of the bear, fences and corrals
04:43They seek to reduce the riskiest encounters; the change does not end with the delivery of materials
04:49There is equipment to be installed and work to be done. Jose Ignacio says that there is still work to be done to...
04:55How to operate the panel of an electric fence so far we are just starting the first thing, the second thing there is
05:01Much to do, but the point is to begin, to begin with the most difficult part, the project coordinator says.
05:09of conservation agreements for two years the agreement that we signed with the
05:13The Cundinamarca government's investment is valued at 460 million pesos; the corporation made an investment
05:19of 300 million the governorship of 160 and to each board of action as once they were delivered
05:23approximately 110 million pesos where direct implementation has taken place were signed
05:28solidarity agreements where the board directly acquires the supplies and materials and they execute
05:32The actions in the territory imply that after the solidarity agreement, a formal agreement is signed.
05:37Conservation allows actions not to stop there but to truly reach the communities
05:41continue for a period of two years, giving it sustainability and generating appropriation actions
05:46for the governance of its territory and the care for our strategic ecosystems, that period will serve to
05:51observe what happens to the livestock, the farms, and the bear records today, the interviews, and the
05:58Images allow us to recount the beginning of this coexistence, but they do not yet allow us to measure its outcome.
06:03The inhabitants of Manta are still there every day. Maximiliano wants to leave the edge of his farm wooded.
06:10Well, here too, on the cultivated plot of land, they also gave me some small trees of
06:18I have zero vacancy, all that to plant on the bank of a small stream where they can protect and
06:26I'm leaving a space for a wild animal to walk or roam, José.
06:36Ignatius
06:36He says they are just beginning to follow its tracks; he requires looking at where the animal might move and
06:42How do the people who share that mountain live? The next records along with what happens in
06:47The properties will allow us to assess whether this agreement is sustainable.
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