The average person in this area of Chiloe' has 400 acres of land and earns a living from it. People have neither electricity nor running water. However, they have pride in their land and in their ability to make ends meet. They are friendly and kind and are easy to work with. Land is not expensive but rather essential for earning a living and their standard of living is directly proportional to their land holdings.
More land can support more dairy cows and potato fields, and timber for fire wood.
Several landowners are wealthy absentee landholders that maintain a staff of workers. We are designing a one page folded information card explaining our project and emphasizing conservation through education by highlighting guignas and caracaras. We believe a card targeted for a 5th grade education will best bring our message home. 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.