Threats at the Beni Biological Station

Exploratory and investigative trip to learn about the threats in the Beni Biological Station, which is located in the municipality of Santa Ana de Yacuma, Beni, with an area of ​​1,350 km2 and is part of the National System of Protected Areas. A visit to its southern part. Guided on a first visit by park rangers of the reserve, we were able to learn about several threats such as illegal quartering (wood trafficking), animal trafficking, livestock farming, climate change and the reduced resources that the park rangers have, existing in the vast . and rich fauna and flora of the place. Among all this, the life of the towns and their inhabitants who reside at the edge of the station, along the edge of the Maniqui River, continues to be decisive today. Chimanes who, with their own life and culture, are growing and organizing. However, this growth is not at all uniform among towns. As in the case of the Campo Bello community, a community outside the station, which at some point was encouraged to enter the protected area and began to take advantage of these lands, they say that by generating more crops on better land than they had before, They could supply themselves and thus continue their own growth. Being an action that puts into debate the certain threat caused. A way between natural and a certain progress, migratory decisions that Bolivian territories experience today. Sectors and peoples that politically and institutionally find themselves in conflict and in uncomfortable coexistence as chimanes and park rangers in the middle of a protected area.