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Article

Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos

by
Ana María Garrido Corredor
1,*,
Hanne Cottyn
2,3,
Santiago Martínez-Medina
1,
Christopher J. Wheatley
4,
Adriana Sanchez
5,
Joshua Kirshner
3,6,
Helen Cowie
2,
Julia Touza-Montero
3,6 and
Piran C. L. White
3,6
1
Programa de Ciencias Sociales y Saberes de la Biodiversidad, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá 110321, Colombia
2
Department of History, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
3
Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
4
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
5
Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 111221, Colombia
6
Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York YO10 5NG, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10489; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910489
Submission received: 21 June 2021 / Revised: 25 August 2021 / Accepted: 27 August 2021 / Published: 22 September 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finding Long Term Resolutions to Human-Wildlife Conflicts)
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Abstract

This article proposes a historical, multispecies, and ontological approach to human–wildlife conflict (HWC) in the Colombian páramos. Focusing on the páramos surrounding the capital city of Bogotá, we reconstruct the historically changing relationship between cattle-farming campesino communities and the Andean bear, Tremarctos ornatus. Using ethnographic and historical research methods, we conceptualise this relationship as embedded in localised landscapes and multispecies assemblages, in which scientists, conservation practitioners, water infrastructures, public environmental agencies, and cows participate as well. This article demonstrates that insufficient attention to the practices and relationships of historically marginalised humans and non-humans in the management of HWCs contributes to new dynamics of exclusion and friction, and can reduce the effectiveness of conservation programmes. We conclude that opening up conservation to the interests and knowledges of local communities is imperative in moving towards more historically informed, pluralistic and effective conservation strategies.
Keywords: human–wildlife conflicts; Andean bear; conservation; campesinos; cattle; páramo; Colombia; multispecies; ontology; history human–wildlife conflicts; Andean bear; conservation; campesinos; cattle; páramo; Colombia; multispecies; ontology; history

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Garrido Corredor, A.M.; Cottyn, H.; Martínez-Medina, S.; Wheatley, C.J.; Sanchez, A.; Kirshner, J.; Cowie, H.; Touza-Montero, J.; White, P.C.L. Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10489. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910489

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Garrido Corredor AM, Cottyn H, Martínez-Medina S, Wheatley CJ, Sanchez A, Kirshner J, Cowie H, Touza-Montero J, White PCL. Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos. Sustainability. 2021; 13(19):10489. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910489

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Garrido Corredor, Ana María, Hanne Cottyn, Santiago Martínez-Medina, Christopher J. Wheatley, Adriana Sanchez, Joshua Kirshner, Helen Cowie, Julia Touza-Montero, and Piran C. L. White. 2021. "Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos" Sustainability 13, no. 19: 10489. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910489

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Garrido Corredor, A. M., Cottyn, H., Martínez-Medina, S., Wheatley, C. J., Sanchez, A., Kirshner, J., Cowie, H., Touza-Montero, J., & White, P. C. L. (2021). Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos. Sustainability, 13(19), 10489. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910489

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