Mamíferos de las Reservas Naturales de la Sociedad Civil de Altagracia, Casanare, Colombia

Abstract

The absence of public protected areas in Casanare Colombia has led to strengthen conservation processes by private reserves (RNSC), where working together with local communities is the basis of biodiversity management. This study aimed to evaluate the richness and abundance of terrestrial mammals through a community-based monitoring program. During two seasons (2018 and 2019), eleven camera traps were installed, for a total of 960 camera-days. Eighteen mammal species were recorded, belonging to ten families and six orders, including the two threatened species Myrmecophaga tridactyla and Pteronura brasiliensis. This study is one of the first mammalian inventories in the Colombian Orinoco based on a community exercise of biodiversity knowledge.