19/5
2024
Special Focus: 2024 - UN International Year of Camelids (International Society of Ethnobiology Congress)
Marrakech (Marruecos), 19/05/2024
La sesión, realizada el 19 de mayo, tuvo como objetivo resaltar el papel biosociocultural de estas especies emblemáticas (dromedarios, camellos bactrianos, llamas, alpacas, guanacos, vicuñas) en la vida humana en zonas áridas, semiáridas y montañosas. La sesión destacó los motivos detrás de la celebración de 2024 como Año Internacional de los Camélidos y presento algunas de las pro...
16/5
2024
17/5
2024
Ships of the Desert - In Celebration of Camels in Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum Village (Jordan), 16/05/2024 - 17/05/2024
Camels are the "Ships of the Desert", woven into the very fabric of Jordanian culture tracing back to the ancient Arab trade routes that bridged the East and the West. Camel caravans laden with silk, spices, foods, plants, perfumes, incense, and other luxury goods embarked on epic odysseys over vast distances through South Arabia and Bilad Al Sham across the Silk Road, Spice Route, and Ince...
14/5
2024
16/5
2024
3° Congreso Internacional de Ganadería Camélida
San Pedro de Atacama (Chile), 14/05/2024 - 16/05/2024
La Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), a iniciativa de Bolivia, aprobó en 2017 la Resolución A/RES/72/210 que declara el 2024 como el Año Internacional de los Camélidos, reconociendo la importancia económica y cultural de estos animales en la seguridad alimentaria y la reducción de la pobreza y, por lo tanto, fomentar su consumo y producción. En octubre del añ...
7/5
2024
8/5
2024
XXI Vicuña Convention Technical Meeting
Lima (Peru), Evento híbrido, 07/05/2024 - 08/05/2024
The Convention for the Conservation and Management of the Vicuña is an international agreement in which the signatory governments (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru) consider that the conservation of the vicuña constitutes an economic production alternative that benefits the Andean population. Likewise, they recognize that there is a need to assume a commitment to its...
30/4
2024
El MINEC y la FAO promueven el potencial de los camélidos en la seguridad alimentaria
Caracas (Venezuela), 30/04/2024
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, junto al Ministerio para el Poder Popular del Ecosocialismo realizaron un conversatorio sobre el potencial de los camélidos en la seguridad alimentaria. En Venezuela hay alrededor de 42 ejemplares de camélidos, todos de exhibición y bajo cuidado humano. El evento se realizó en el Zoológico de Caricuao, en Caracas, Ven...
29/4
2024
Celebrando el Año Internacional de los Camélidos: Vicuñas y Llamas en Argentina
(Argentina), 29/04/2024
Durante la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires, el grupo de investigación VICAM (Vicuñas, Camélidos y Medio Ambiente) presentó actividades relacionadas con las vicuñas y llamas del altiplano de las provincias del noroeste argentino en el espacio del CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Argentinas). La presentación incluyó actividades interactivas con estudiantes de la escuela, ...
20/4
2024
Report on "The Importance of Camelids in Human Life. International Year of Camelids"
Moscow (Russia), Evento híbrido, 20/04/2024
The short report "The Importance of Camelids in Human Life. International Year of Camelids" was presented at the scientific and practical conference "Harmonious Coexistence Between Humans and Animals in Urbanized Areas and Nature Reserves: Discussing the International and Russian Experience," held in Moscow, Russia, from April 20 to 21, 2024. The speaker, Mikhail Vasilyevich Yurchenko, is th...
20/4
2024
Camelids Parade in Paris
Paris (France), 20/04/2024
Join us for a unique event in Paris on April 20th! The French Federation for the Development of Camelids in France and Europe is organizing a parade of camels, dromedaries, llamas and alpacas to celebrate the International Year of Camelids 2024. Starting from Quai Jacques Chirac, the Federation has planned an iconic route through the heart of Paris where camels and delegations will parade pa...
18/4
2024
Workshop on “Mongolian Camel Milk Cluster - New Organization for Effective Cooperation and Export Promotion"
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), 18/04/2024
Dedicated to the International Year of Camelids, Dairy Asia, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry of Mongolia, FAO, and the EU funded project “International Trade Development” jointly organized the workshop “Mongolian Camel Milk Cluster - New Organization for Effective Cooperation and Export Promotion” that was held on 18 April 2024 at the Mongolian Na...
16/4
2024
The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia? Lecture by Ayelet Zohar (English) - On the Backs of Camels
Vienna (Austria), 16/04/2024
In her lecture, Ayelet Zohar critically analyzes camel images as a metonymy for Asia as well as Japanese attitudes towards the continent. The lecture reads into encounters with the exotic animals, from Nanban art, realist Dutch-influenced illustrations, through Misemono roadshows of the first camel-pair imported in 1821. Modernity and Japan’s wars of Pan-Asiatic fantasies associated c...