Address: Paraguaya 126, San Miguel

City: Punta Arenas - Chile

Phone: (56-61) 247382

Fax: (56-61) 247382

Email(s): guineo.garay@gmail.com

General Manager: Gladys Garay

Administration and Sales: Oscar Guineo

We, Gladys Garay (Wildlife Biologist) and Oscar Guineo (Technician in Agriculture and Science), constitute a microenterprise in 1990, with the goal of publish our own books about the Magellanic wildlife, with information and photographs that we have taken during several years of field work, mainly in Torres del Paine National Park, but also in other places in this Patagonian region.

Our major experience comes from our residence by several years in Torres del Paine National Park, located in Magallanes, Chile. Oscar was a park ranger along 17 years and I as a biologist, carry out several scientific research about birds and mammals during 10 years. We leave the Park in 1991 and establish our residence in Punta Arenas, ever since we are dedicate to the diffusion of the wildlife knowledge through several books, posters, maps, talks and exhibitions, among other things.

We remain connected with the Park, participating in several scientific expeditions and between 1999 and 2009 we had carry out a research on the huemul population (Chilean deer) that inhabit in Lake Grey sector. We published the results obtained in a book for the diffusion of this specie, because despite of it is in our national emblem, their conservation category is “In Danger”. In the other hand, we also have been doing some flora and fauna evaluations in other places like Tierra del Fuego and in the Patagonic Archipelago. In that way, we have known almost every kind of ecosystems, both terrestrial and aquatic, that exists in this varied, extreme and beautiful region.

All the information we had obtained in the field, through our research and work, in addition with the photographs we took, were complemented with some consulted information, for to be published in five books on sale, witch also allow us to finance the scientific research we do as independent biologists, because we are not associated with any institution or university.

Our principal purpose, is to make known witch are the regional wildlife species, for the people that live in here and those who visit us, help us through this acquire knowledge, to protect the ecosystems were they live, and allow them to survive and maintain over the time, for our own good.