Güirá Oga: referente nacional en rescate y recría de fauna silvestre en Misiones. Conciencia ambiental

Se trata del centro ubicado dentro una reserva que limita con el Parque Nacional Iguazú es conocido como la "casa de los pájaros". En la actualidad se posiciona en el país como un sitio de alto valor ambiental y gran atractivo turístico. "Aquí se protegen a especies en extinción, se cura a aquellos animales que llegan lastimados y después se intenta volver a reinsertarlos nuevamente en sus ambientes naturales”, explicó Marcelo Quirelli.

El Centro Güirá Oga (Puerto Iguazú, Misiones), conocido como la “Casa de los Pájaros”, es un lugar de de alto valor ambiental y gran atractivo turístico. Fue creado en 1997 como un proyecto para la recuperación de aves rapaces, pero en la actualidad se posiciona como un referente nacional y regional en rescate, rehabilitación, y recría de especies de fauna silvestre autóctona.

El Centro fue construido estratégicamente dentro de una reserva de 19 hectáreas, que limita con el Parque Provincial Iguazú y hace de amortiguación con la ciudad de Iguazú.

La propiedad pertenece al gobierno de Misiones, y por medio de un convenio cedieron el co-manejo del Centro a la Fundación Natural Félix de Azara. De esta manera, para su desarrollo cuentan con un fuerte apoyo del Ministerio de Ecología y Turismo, profesionales y algunas empresas privadas.

Sus fundadores, el matrimonio de Jorge Anfuso y Silvia Elsegood -especialistas en la rehabilitación de aves rapaces- viven y les dedican todas sus atenciones a los huéspedes que están en cautiverio y también a realizar mejoras permanentes al lugar.

“Los directores técnicos del Centro son Jorge y Silvia, y después hay un staff de 22 personas que trabajan en el lugar, en el cuidado de los animales y guía de los visitantes”, explicó a Valor Ambiental el director de Relaciones Institucionales de la Fundación Natural Félix de Azara, Marcelo Quirelli.
Cuentan con un equipo de profesionales veterinarios, biólogos y técnicos en distintas especialidades.

“Aquí se protegen, se cura a aquellos animales que llegan lastimados y después se intenta volver a reinsertarlos nuevamente en sus ambientes naturales”, explicó Quirelli.

“En este lugar, un animal herido puede obtener un rápido diagnóstico y tratamiento, un ejemplar de una especie en peligro de extinción puede salvar su vida y aportar a la subsistencia de la especie en su conjunto”, agregó.
El proyecto de la fundación está destinado a la investigación y conservación de la selva misionera y su biodiversidad. Pero sin dudas, uno de sus principales atractivos es el rol que decidieron desempeñan los fundadores de Güirá Oga con el centro para la educación ambiental, concienciación y divulgación del peligro de extinción que corren las especies con la destrucción de la Selva Paranaense.

“Al Centro ingresan personas de la provincia de Misiones, del país y de distintas partes del mundo. En enero pasado recibimos a 3.000 visitantes y el 50% realizó el recorrido con el guía, de manera que toda la información que se da por medio de los guías es fundamental”, recalcó el coordinador.
En este sentido, Quirelli destacó también el aporte del Centro Güirá Oga para el turismo de Iguazú. “Aquí se pueden conocer las especies de la selva, que llegaron porque se encontraban con algún grado de amenaza, que aparecían accidentadas o en manos particulares, zoológicos o colecciones privadas sin un adecuado manejo y sin posibilidades de dejar descendencia”, relató el coordinador.

Águilas y halcones, su especialidad

El principal circuito que recorren las visitas es donde se encuentran alojadas las aves rapaces, ejemplares únicas de la naturaleza. Las águilas y halcones en la actualidad son víctimas de la negligencia humana, y Güirá Oga se creó originalmente pensando en la recuperación de estas especies.

“En la actualidad hay varias que aún están recuperándose de las heridas recibidas y el Centro dispone de un sector especial de entrenamiento de las águilas para que sus músculos no pierdan elasticidad”, indicó el coordinador.

Por su parte, Marcelo Cavicchia, responsable del manejo de área, expresó que “se intenta recuperar a estas aves, siempre con el objetivo de volverlas a su ambiente natural”.

Al momento de la visita, en el sector se encontraban ejemplares de rapaces misioneras y de otras provincias que llegaron con diversos problemas, “todos causados por la mano del hombre”, dijo Cavicchia.

Explicó que “lamentablemente, el 80% de los ejemplares que llegan al Centro, no se pueden volver a introducir por las incapacidades que presentan después del daño, ya que podrán sobrevivir por sus propios medios, y de otro modo morirían de conservarlas con nosotros”.

Entre las rapaces que no pertenecen a Misiones, en el recinto había dos águilas coronadas: un águila que fue incautada en un departamento en Buenos Aires, donde la tenían como mascota, y el águila solitaria, que llegó proveniente de Salta también por una incautación de GN.

En tanto, entre las locales se encontraban un águila crestada negra y una viuda, dos especies que están en peligro de extinción, muy amenazadas. “La selva día a día es más chica, por el avance de la deforestación, y estas aves se ven directamente afectadas por la destrucción de su ambiente natural”, concluyó Cavicchia.

*Harpías: la reina alada indiscutida es la harpía, la rapaz más fuerte y poderosa del mundo. Junto a ella, otras águilas menores pero muy poderosas, como el águila crestada real, la crestada negra, el águila viuda o patera y el águila monera y conforman junto a otras rapaces el grupo más numeroso de las especies incluidas en el proyecto.

*Halcones: tienen un recinto con un diseño único en Sudamérica- “Es un recinto especial para el halcón peregrino, el más veloz del mundo. Para lograr su instalación, fue un trabajo complejo”.

Proyecto en expansión

Las instalaciones cuentan con un área de Cuarentena en donde ubica a algunas de las especies o individuos en proceso de recuperación para luego proceder a su reintroducción en la selva. “En este lugar no pueden ingresar los visitantes, ya que se evita al máximo el contacto de las especies con el ser humano”, indicó Quirelli.

Después está el sector de Nutrición, donde se prepara la dieta especial de cada uno de los huéspedes, y el Bioterio, laboratorio de incubación con cámaras de cría de codornices y ratones para alimento de rapaces, que tampoco está abierto al público y es una de las tantas instalaciones que conforman el centro. Finalmente, cuentan con un área de Mantenimiento y las viviendas de Jorge y Silvia y los voluntarios.

“Güirá Oga reabrió sus puertas totalmente renovada a mediados de 2007. Esto se dio a partir del convenio firmado con el Ministerio de Ecología de la provincia y la Fundación Natural Félix de Azara en 2006, donde todo nuevamente tomó otro impulso, se inició la construcción de las obras para la remodelación de los recintos, se incluyó el sector del laboratorio, un centro de interpretación, se arreglaron los senderos, se adecuaron las jaulas a la necesidad de cada especie”, recordó Quirelli.

“Después de un año y medio de trabajo se abrió el Centro completamente renovado, pero sin afectar el entorno natural”, aclaró Quirelli.

A futuro se prevé la construcción de un hospital, un importante área de recepción para fines educativos (560 metros cuadrados cubiertos), senderos interpretativos autoguiados, recintos para albergar exclusivamente aves que podrán ser observadas por los visitantes (ya que el área visitada actualmente quedará cerrada al público), se construirá una vivienda con todas las comodidades destinada a voluntarios y pasantes, una nueva sala de atención al turista y un sendero guiado para observación de fauna silvestre.

Fuente: misionesonline.net

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Cat and mouse in partnership. (El gato y el ratón hacen vida en común). Cuentos infantiles clásicos en inglés.

Author: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

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Clever Gretel (la pícara cocinera). Cuentos infantiles clásicos en inglés.

Author: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

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The rabbit's bride ( La novia del conejo). Cuentos clásicos en inglés.

Author: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

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Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things. He had likewise, by another wife, a young daughter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over but the stepmother began to show herself in her true colors. She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less because they made her own daughters appear the more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of the house. She scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and cleaned madam's chamber, and those of misses, her daughters. She slept in a sorry garret, on a wretched straw bed, while her sisters slept in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, on beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking glasses so large that they could see themselves at their full length from head to foot.

The poor girl bore it all patiently, and dared not tell her father, who would have scolded her; for his wife governed him entirely. When she had done her work, she used to go to the chimney corner, and sit down there in the cinders and ashes, which caused her to be called Cinderwench. Only the younger sister, who was not so rude and uncivil as the older one, called her Cinderella. However, Cinderella, notwithstanding her coarse apparel, was a hundred times more beautiful than her sisters, although they were always dressed very richly.

It happened that the king's son gave a ball, and invited all persons of fashion to it. Our young misses were also invited, for they cut a very grand figure among those of quality. They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in selecting the gowns, petticoats, and hair dressing that would best become them. This was a new difficulty for Cinderella; for it was she who ironed her sister's linen and pleated their ruffles. They talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed.

"For my part," said the eldest, "I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming."

"And I," said the youngest, "shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered cloak, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world."

They sent for the best hairdresser they could get to make up their headpieces and adjust their hairdos, and they had their red brushes and patches from Mademoiselle de la Poche.

They also consulted Cinderella in all these matters, for she had excellent ideas, and her advice was always good. Indeed, she even offered her services to fix their hair, which they very willingly accepted. As she was doing this, they said to her, "Cinderella, would you not like to go to the ball?"

"Alas!" said she, "you only jeer me; it is not for such as I am to go to such a place."

"You are quite right," they replied. "It would make the people laugh to see a Cinderwench at a ball."

Anyone but Cinderella would have fixed their hair awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well. They were so excited that they hadn't eaten a thing for almost two days. Then they broke more than a dozen laces trying to have themselves laced up tightly enough to give them a fine slender shape. They were continually in front of their looking glass. At last the happy day came. They went to court, and Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could. When she lost sight of them, she started to cry.

Her godmother, who saw her all in tears, asked her what was the matter.

"I wish I could. I wish I could." She was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing.

This godmother of hers, who was a fairy, said to her, "You wish that you could go to the ball; is it not so?"

"Yes," cried Cinderella, with a great sigh.

"Well," said her godmother, "be but a good girl, and I will contrive that you shall go." Then she took her into her chamber, and said to her, "Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin."

Cinderella went immediately to gather the finest she could get, and brought it to her godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could help her go to the ball. Her godmother scooped out all the inside of it, leaving nothing but the rind. Having done this, she struck the pumpkin with her wand, and it was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold.

She then went to look into her mousetrap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor. She gave each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, and the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse colored dapple gray.

Being at a loss for a coachman, Cinderella said, "I will go and see if there is not a rat in the rat trap that we can turn into a coachman."

"You are right," replied her godmother, "Go and look."

Cinderella brought the trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats. The fairy chose the one which had the largest beard, touched him with her wand, and turned him into a fat, jolly coachman, who had the smartest whiskers that eyes ever beheld.

After that, she said to her, "Go again into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering pot. Bring them to me."

She had no sooner done so but her godmother turned them into six footmen, who skipped up immediately behind the coach, with their liveries all bedaubed with gold and silver, and clung as close behind each other as if they had done nothing else their whole lives. The fairy then said to Cinderella, "Well, you see here an equipage fit to go to the ball with; are you not pleased with it?"

"Oh, yes," she cried; "but must I go in these nasty rags?"

Her godmother then touched her with her wand, and, at the same instant, her clothes turned into cloth of gold and silver, all beset with jewels. This done, she gave her a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world. Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, commanded her not to stay past midnight, telling her, at the same time, that if she stayed one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and that her clothes would become just as they were before.

She promised her godmother to leave the ball before midnight; and then drove away, scarcely able to contain herself for joy. The king's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, had arrived, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall, among all the company. There was immediately a profound silence. Everyone stopped dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so entranced was everyone with the singular beauties of the unknown newcomer.

Nothing was then heard but a confused noise of, "How beautiful she is! How beautiful she is!"

The king himself, old as he was, could not help watching her, and telling the queen softly that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature.

All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, hoping to have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could find such fine materials and as able hands to make them.

The king's son led her to the most honorable seat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him. She danced so very gracefully that they all more and more admired her. A fine meal was served up, but the young prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her.

She went and sat down by her sisters, showing them a thousand civilities, giving them part of the oranges and citrons which the prince had presented her with, which very much surprised them, for they did not know her. While Cinderella was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three-quarters, whereupon she immediately made a courtesy to the company and hurried away as fast as she could.

Arriving home, she ran to seek out her godmother, and, after having thanked her, she said she could not but heartily wish she might go to the ball the next day as well, because the king's son had invited her.

As she was eagerly telling her godmother everything that had happened at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran and opened.

"You stayed such a long time!" she cried, gaping, rubbing her eyes and stretching herself as if she had been sleeping; she had not, however, had any manner of inclination to sleep while they were away from home.

"If you had been at the ball," said one of her sisters, "you would not have been tired with it. The finest princess was there, the most beautiful that mortal eyes have ever seen. She showed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons."

Cinderella seemed very indifferent in the matter. Indeed, she asked them the name of that princess; but they told her they did not know it, and that the king's son was very uneasy on her account and would give all the world to know who she was. At this Cinderella, smiling, replied, "She must, then, be very beautiful indeed; how happy you have been! Could not I see her? Ah, dear Charlotte, do lend me your yellow dress which you wear every day."

"Yes, to be sure!" cried Charlotte; "lend my clothes to such a dirty Cinderwench as you are! I should be such a fool."

Cinderella, indeed, well expected such an answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it, if her sister had lent her what she asked for jestingly.

The next day the two sisters were at the ball, and so was Cinderella, but dressed even more magnificently than before. The king's son was always by her, and never ceased his compliments and kind speeches to her. All this was so far from being tiresome to her, and, indeed, she quite forgot what her godmother had told her. She thought that it was no later than eleven when she counted the clock striking twelve. She jumped up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the prince picked up most carefully. She reached home, but quite out of breath, and in her nasty old clothes, having nothing left of all her finery but one of the little slippers, the mate to the one that she had dropped.

The guards at the palace gate were asked if they had not seen a princess go out. They replied that they had seen nobody leave but a young girl, very shabbily dressed, and who had more the air of a poor country wench than a gentlewoman.

When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked them if they had been well entertained, and if the fine lady had been there.

They told her, yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the king's son had picked up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper.

What they said was very true; for a few days later, the king's son had it proclaimed, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot this slipper would just fit. They began to try it on the princesses, then the duchesses and all the court, but in vain; it was brought to the two sisters, who did all they possibly could to force their foot into the slipper, but they did not succeed.

Cinderella, who saw all this, and knew that it was her slipper, said to them, laughing, "Let me see if it will not fit me."

Her sisters burst out laughing, and began to banter with her. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said that it was only just that she should try as well, and that he had orders to let everyone try.

He had Cinderella sit down, and, putting the slipper to her foot, he found that it went on very easily, fitting her as if it had been made of wax. Her two sisters were greatly astonished, but then even more so, when Cinderella pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her other foot. Then in came her godmother and touched her wand to Cinderella's clothes, making them richer and more magnificent than any of those she had worn before.

And now her two sisters found her to be that fine, beautiful lady whom they had seen at the ball. They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill treatment they had made her undergo. Cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, said that she forgave them with all her heart, and wanted them always to love her.

She was taken to the young prince, dressed as she was. He thought she was more charming than before, and, a few days after, married her. Cinderella, who was no less good than beautiful, gave her two sisters lodgings in the palace, and that very same day matched them with two great lords of the court.

Moral: Beauty in a woman is a rare treasure that will always be admired. Graciousness, however, is priceless and of even greater value. This is what Cinderella's godmother gave to her when she taught her to behave like a queen. Young women, in the winning of a heart, graciousness is more important than a beautiful hairdo. It is a true gift of the fairies. Without it nothing is possible; with it, one can do anything.

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Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter."

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, "I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."

"Does she live far off?" said the wolf

"Oh I say," answered Little Red Riding Hood; "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village."

"Well," said the wolf, "and I'll go and see her too. I'll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first."

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers. It was not long before the wolf arrived at the old woman's house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.

"Who's there?"

"Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; "who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother."

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out, "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten. He then shut the door and got into the grandmother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time afterwards and knocked at the door: tap, tap.

"Who's there?"

Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, "It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you."

The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."

Little Red Riding Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.

The wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me."

Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, "Grandmother, what big arms you have!"

"All the better to hug you with, my dear."

"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"

"All the better to run with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"All the better to hear with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

"All the better to see with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"

"All the better to eat you up with."

And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.

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