Although it is known that Envigado houses some feline species in its forests, it is always a surprise that these are captured by monitoring cameras strategically located in wooded areas of the municipality.
Therefore, it was not surprising that the mayor Braulio Espinosa celebrate the exceptional record of a puma in the village of El Vallano nor that he highlighted that “40% of the territory” has protected areas.
“We have installed photodetection cameras in our territory that identify what are their brokers to be able to take actions that allow us to protect them over time”, stated the Envigado Environment Secretary, José Nicolás Arenas.
The biologist of the same unit, Carlos Andrés González, assured that through the installation of these cameras they have been able to record a great variety of species in said corridor, among which is the puma concolor, “the largest feline that lives in the Valle de Aburrá”.
In fact, in Envigado there is the presence of four of the six feline species that inhabit Colombia and cougars have been spotted multiple times. Precisely for this reason, in the south of the Aburrá Valley, different strategies have been created in favor of caring for these species, for which a Southern Conservation Table made up of the municipalities of Sabaneta, Itagüí, Caldas, La Estrella and Envigado.
“The puma (is) at the top of the food chain or food chain, and its protection ensures the well-being for other species and for the territory”points out the news portal of the Envigado Mayor’s Office, in which they specify that this is an “umbrella species”, so its presence “is an indicator” of the balance of ecosystems.
