However, meetings are now underway to bring together the different management agencies. Environmental work is undertaken by the local Ministry of Agriculture with main offices at Cuzco. The 1988 forest fires illustrated the need to monitor campesino landuse within the sanctuary, and to encourage safe agricultural practices. In 1988, a major fire spread across the Macchu Picchu National Forest destroying over 4,000ha of land, several of the sanctuaries' indigenous species of flora and fauna, including the spectacled bear, which are under local threat of extinction. There is no finance for patrolling etc.
Fire reaps havoc in wildlife sanctuary.
Animals international . Fire claim jungle bears. The Guardian newspaper . 17 August, 1988. Management problems in the Andean National Parks and protected areas of Peru.