Since I completed My DPhil on the behaviour of vicunas, with special reference to the sustainable use of their fleece and assessment of their welfare during shearing, I have enjoyed a thrilling academic career, creating my own research group back in Chile, Fauna Australis, inspired by the example set by David Macdonald and his WildCRU. As Head of the Department of Ecosystems and the Environment at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile I oversee the graduate Conservation and Wildlife Management programme. I have continued to collaborate with Oxford since I left in 2000.