{"id":15493,"date":"2019-03-25T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:59:35","slug":"ausangate-nears-recognition-as-regional-conservation-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2019\/ausangate-nears-recognition-as-regional-conservation-area\/15493\/","title":{"rendered":"Ausangate Nears Recognition as Regional Conservation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peru&#8217;s National Service of Natural Protected Areas (<strong>SERNANP<\/strong>) has approved a bid by the Department of Cusco to have Ausangate recognized as a Regional Conservation Area. The only step remaining to make <strong>Ausangate<\/strong>&#8216;s status official is approval by the Ministry of the Environment and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conservation area would cover the <strong>mountain Ausangate<\/strong> and its surrounding areas. Located about 60 miles southeast of Cusco, the region is of environmental, ecological, and cultural importance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Federico-and-Annalisa-at-Rainbow-Mountain-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Federico and Annalisa at Rainbow Mountain\" class=\"wp-image-13068\" width=\"38\" height=\"38\"><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>You may also like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2017\/prepare-for-some-high-altitude-to-feast-your-eyes-on-rainbow-mountain\/12918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Prepare for some high altitude to feast your eyes on Rainbow Mountain (opens in a new tab)\">Prepare for some high altitude to feast your eyes on Rainbow Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are several benefits to <strong>Ausangate<\/strong>&#8216;s pending recognition as a regional conservation area, such as protection against the dangers of climate change and the conservation of endangered species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, status as a regional conservation area could be useful in helping regulate the ever-growing role of <strong>tourism<\/strong> in the area, which attracts outdoors adventurers from around the world. This would go hand-in-hand with the increase of development opportunities for local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sibinacocha-lagoon-by-andina.jpg\" alt=\"Sibinacocha lagoon - Image courtesy of Andina\" class=\"wp-image-15512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sibinacocha-lagoon-by-andina.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sibinacocha-lagoon-by-andina-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>Sibinacocha lagoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly, recognition as a regional conservation area would be instrumental to the conservation of the <strong>Sibinacocha lagoon<\/strong>, which \u2014 in addition to being a stunning piece of scenery in the Andes \u2014 helps regulate the flow and volume of the Vilcanota River, which in turn feeds the Machu Picchu hydroelectric plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the elevation of Ausangate to a regional conservation area comes to pass, it will prove yet another data point in Peru&#8217;s laudable trend of taking concrete action to recognize and protect its environmental and touristic resources in sustainable ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atv.pe\/actualidad\/cusco-area-de-conservacion-regional-ausangate-376463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Atv.pe (opens in a new tab)\">Atv.pe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru&#8217;s National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP) has approved a bid by the Department of Cusco to have Ausangate recognized as a Regional Conservation Area. The only step remaining to make Ausangate&#8216;s status official is approval by the Ministry of the Environment and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}