There exists a national park on Chiloe's western coast. Chilean national park officials there told me they did not have guignas in the park. My feeling is that they must but that the cat is so secretive that it has never been seen by park officials. Extensive tracts of prime guigna habitat exist on northern Chiloe' and these lands are in private hands. Senor Cox, for instance, has extensive holdings of prime forest.
Land is still relatively inexpensive.
We have not attempted to capture guignas in apparently prime habitat because we are more interested at this time in how guignas are fairing in fragmented forests. We continue to believe that guignas and humans can co-exist peacefully if the vail of ignorance and mystical beliefs are penetrated through education. No one is going to hunt a 2.5 kg cat as a trophy. Our goal is to help the people protect a beautiful cat of which so little is known by stimulating their inate interest in nature - something the people of Chiloe' all share. We believe we have already stimulated that interest in just our first 5 weeks.