My last camp VTP

Hello, today I will tell you a story that happened about two years ago. To start this story, I Will tell you that I was participating for 3 years in a socio-environmental volunteering called "Live your Parks" which seeks to encourage young people between 15 and 29 years to participate in socio-environmental issues, care, protection, and value in the Protected Wild Areas of our country, generating a real commitment of people with the environment and nature.

This existing program throughout the national territory helped me a lot in being the person I am today. It gave me the possibility of knowing the career that I am currently studying, it opened many doors for me, it allowed me to grow, it allowed me to develop my own skills and abilities being a happy, whole person with great convictions.

My last camp I had through this "VTP" program was in the Maule region in the "Los Ruiles" national reserve in February 2019. This experience is very special and important to me because on this occasion a work was carried out to conserve the Ruíl which is an endemic species of the area that is in danger of extinction. That is why, together with the support of CONAF, forest engineers and volunteers, it was possible to monitor the regeneration of native species, the extraction of invasive species such as pines, which compete directly with Ruíl, was carried out, with the aim of controlling this phenomenon and that the Ruíl can be conserved and protected in a better way.

In this camp I met very beautiful people with a very pure and enriching energy. I was able to connect again with nature and the environment, managing to contribute a grain of sand to the conservation of this natural heritage. They were 10 very exhausting camping days, which had many joys, sorrows, difficulties, among other things. However, it was an experience that marked all the volunteers and park rangers who work in that place, because a very special harmony and connection was generated with the national reserve, with the park rangers and with the volunteers.

I hope you liked my experience; I hope that you can also achieve your goals and learn from those experiences of life. See you on the next blog!!

My future job

Since I got to know nature and started to practice Trekking. I had the possibility to know different places and mountains of the Region Metropolitana, even many nationally Protected wilderness areas. In those places I’ve met very talented and intelligent people from different careers, but, above all, I have great affection and respect for park rangers, because they have taught me to take care of and see natural areas in a different way.

Even, I would like to work as park ranger in the “Huerquehue National Park”, because I feel a special and very important connection with this place.

Since then, being a park ranger is the job that I most desire to be able to develop as a future Forestry engineer, carrying out environmental education activities to different visitors and tourists, raising awareness about the importance of taking care of nature.

Furthermore, A job I've never done and would like to do in the future it is with the researcher Claudia Cerda in research on ecosystem services, that is, ecosystem services are all the direct and indirect benefits that ecosystems provide for free, managing to satisfy some needs of human beings, allowing the social and economic value of the contribution of ecosystems to society.

Furthermore, to be a professional who uses applied geomatics and landscape ecology to be able to develop projects together with different professionals, be able to contribute to the knowledge and improve the coexistence of human beings with nature, which has suffered many anthropogenic damages and that we must take charges today to avoid a massive extinction of flora, fauna and human beings.