Giovanna Anceschi & Alberto Magli

cactusinhabitat

Argentina

Brasil

Argentina

Peru

Bolivia

Paraguay

Argentina

Brasil

Uruguay

Chile

Brasil

Argentina

Bolivia

Brasil

Argentina

Bolivia

Perú

Argentina

Bolivia

Uruguay

Argentina

Brasil

Argentina

Thank you

Unfortunately, we do not have the pictures of many of the people we would like to thank, though very dear to us and alive in our memories. Indeed taking a picture is not always an instinctive action during a meeting. The following list can not fill all the gaps, but we’ll try to remember those who unfortunately are not in the photos on the side.
Argentina. Buenos Aires: Prof. Roberto Kiesling, Omar Ferrari & Señora, Marco Morani (ICEI), María Florencia Ferre & Andrés Tatavitto, Florinda Scheggia. Capilla del Monte: Gabriela De Martini, Roberto Dadda. Cafayate: Luis Francisco Bausela Madrigal, Maria Esther Lopez & Daniel, “Paloma”, Neri Bianchii, don Alejandro. Corrientes: Aline y Anibal F. Parera. Formosa: Norma de El Tano Marino. Salta: Jorge y Susana De Cavi. Tafí del valle: Amalia Buffo, Inés Estevez. Bolivia. Camiri: Carlos Burgos Arandia. Cochabamba: Stefanina Parussa y familia. Puerto Suarez: Gobierno Municipal, Roberto Vaca Jorge (Alcalde). Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Don Melchior (Globtrotter). Santiago de Chiquitos: Mary Pacheco, Arleen Tacéo, Arminda, Filomena.Tarija: Familia Acebey, Familia Von Landwvest. Brasil. Aceguá: Don João Viñoles. Agudo: Prefeitura, Claudia Bernardini, Janete Dumke, Marilene Altmeier. Alegrete: Erasmo Silva (Prefeito). Barra do Quaraì: Franco da Rosa. Bocaiúva: Andersson Clayton Elianne Fernandes, Wilton Librelon, Caçapava do Sul: Ademir Becker de Castilhos. Engenheiro Dolabella: Doña Marcilia, Aguinaldo. Ilha do Mel: Irene. Itamarandiba: Adaõ Domingos Coelho, Ze Bubú, Alberto Souza (IEF), Renato (IEF), Valquíria. Morretes: Maria & Nicolas. Pinhal Grande: Prefeitura, Neuta, Cecilia & Micu. Presidente Kubitschek: Prefeitura, Claudio Pedro de Oliveira, Erica & family, Doña Zezé, Cleber & family. São Francisco de Assis: Preifetura. Paraguay. Assunción: Ana Pin, René Palacios. Caacupé: Aurelia Sofia Martinez. Carapeguá: Alberto. Colonia Indipendentia: Harry & Karin Vögt. Concepción: Kike Carballo. Filadelfia: Jairo Arnald. Uruguay. Colonia del Sacramento: Angel Bonjour-Varela & family. Laguna Merin: Luciara & Mauricio, don Gago & Señora, Wilney (el Carioca). Rivera: Andrea Hilal. Tranqueras: Carina Rodríguez.
We also want to thank all the rangers who helped us a lot; people with whom we feel affinity of intent and with whom we shared happy and fruitful days. In particular, in Brazil: IEF - Parque Estadual da Serra Negra (Minas Gerais), IEF - Parque Estadual de Grão Mogol (Minas Gerais), Parque Estadual de Vila Velha (Paraná). In Chile: CONAF - Parque Nacional Pan de Azucar (III Región de Atacama), CONAF - Parque Nacional Laguna del Laja (VIII Región del Bio Bio). In Paraguay: Fundacón Moises Bertoni - Reserva Natural Bosque Mbaracayu (Canendiyú), Parque Nacional Teniente Agripino Enciso (Boquerón).

And finally, many thanks to the friends who helped and advised us in achieving cactusinhabitat, and especially: Harun Alikadic & Dumitru Ceban, Daniele Gasparinetti, João Larocca, Mónica Buccianti, Grazia Perugini, Paul Gummerson, Hannes Hoffmann, Norbert Gerloff, Graham Charles, Gordon Rowley, Franco Celli Marchett, Michele Lugnan, Al Laius, Marco Ficarra, Francesca Paglialunga.

Argentina

Cacho Cara

Tomás Andruet

Alba

Aurelio Tolaba

Tito Ripodas

Pedro Briones

Armando

el Gaucho Talas

Hilda Cortijo

Sylvia & Turi

Justina & Freddy

Ramon y remiseros

Tito Ripodas

Monica Buccianti

Santiago

Susana y Jorgue Decavi

Família Soto

Armando y Hrnos Flores

Ceci Pezzolo

Florencia y Cecilia

familia Barcelonna

Cecilia Alves

Bomberos Balcarce

Gloria Kaufmann

Silvia Lacour

Cambà Lacour

Enrique Lacour

Bolivia

Rufo Gutierrez

Raùl Acebey

Gonzalo Torres Terzo

Carlos y Miguel

Roberto De La Torre

Wilma y Família Acebey

Luis Alberto & friends

Jaime y Raùl Acebey

Raùl

La Comadre Wilma

Sandra Acebey

David y Irma

La Chala

Rana

José

Edelfrida Sempertegui

Brazil

Don Manoel Teixeira

Galpão de Pedra

Sr. Decinho

Paulo Gombus

Prefeitura de Agudo

Nilson Perske & filho

Família Freu

Claimere & Chaiane

Claucia & João

João Larocca

Serginho Taffarel

Família Martins

Nicolas

Walter Egolf

Giovanni

Ataigi & Alfonso

Eva

Faz.da Virgen do Anjo

Lêda & Maria

IEF Grão Mogol

Rodolfo Assef Vieira

Marina Kleinsorgedaibert

Família Leite

Ton & Claida Leite

Brito

Nara e Giorgio

Isabel Minussi

Don Manoel Teixeira

Valmor Bertin

Conceição Krusser

Márcio Amaral

Isabel e Itacir Pinheiro

Dário Teixeira

Cauê, Nara e Giorgio

Silvio de Oliveira

Silvio e Maria do Carmo

Santiago Charrintton

Soraya e Edda Tosto

Chile

Freddy

BIOTAMAULE

Juan Pincheira

Stella Fischer

Fam. Bellavista

Venancio Sanchez

Paraguay

Lorenzo

Gabriel Lezcano

Guardiaparque

Ana Maria Rivarola

Eleuterio Lopez

Familia Solís

Antonio

Don Tito

Guardiaparques

Juan

Andresa

Pedro y Helena

José & Gabriel

Belen Arce y hijo

Uruguay

Familia Padern

Amalio

Amalia y Wilson

Corina

Bocha y don Juan

Pablo Rado

Maria Torres

Werner Folker

Vicente Botti

Luciara Queijo

Gennaro

The website is dedicated to everyone who is passionate about cacti and, like us, after starting to love these plants, wondered how they live in nature.

Since 2005, traveling as independent researchers throughout the areas of the American continent that most interest our studies on cacti conservation, distribution and classification, we have devoted ourselves to the observation, knowledge and photographic documentation of cacti in their natural habitats.

For years we have walked through the vast territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay constructing an archive of notes and images.

Behind every survey there would be a story to tell. Often, cacti live in difficult to access places, finding them is not always easy and we don’t have large economic resources. But with perseverance and available time, and thanks also to all the people we met and who welcomed and helped us, what we found there was always exciting, and has been source of reflection.

The taxa research proved to be the best guide we could ask for. By following the path traced by the populations surveys, we met wonderful people, plants and places.

Then we had the idea not to keep all this only for ourselves, but rather to make a selection of the materials collected over years of travel available, accompanied by our comments on taxa, elaborated on our return. Texts are summarized and completed by the periodic publication of our booklet (downloadable for free), which accompanied the first site’s release and following updates.

Our formation, constituted by field experience and constant updating in the study of scientific literature (mainly in biogeography, molecular systematics, statistical models, Bayesian, Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony approaches to phylogenetic inference, and cladistics theory), led us to develop a taxonomy on which to base a coherent classification system.

Since 2010 cactusinhabitat.org, along with many beautiful pictures that all cacti lovers will find useful for recognizing taxa, has proposed itself as a modern tool for the classification of the cactus family, also offering a proposal to use digital images to create new standards, useful in the documentation and classification of living plants.

Transferring our ideas onto the web would not have been possible without the fundamental collaboration of Harun Alikadic (web-designer) and Dumitru Ceban (programming), both of whom we thank.