Ranchers hired lion hunters to kill the pumas, but in 1980, the Chilean government made hunting pumas a crime. With the protection of Torres del Paine, puma numbers have risen to unendangered numbers.

and aided by hounds—controlled the region’s puma population. But when the Chilean government established Torres del Paine in the 1970s, hunting of pumas and guanacos was banned. Their numbers ...

A puma casually wanders past the crew. a confusing end-of-day breakfast and an attempt at sleep It was eerie sometimes to have the privileged insight of thermal vision – we watched hunting pumas ...