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Fighting to protect the last Bolivian guanacos from becoming extinct... again.
High in Bolivia’s Andean plateau, 4,000 metres above sea level, a small herd of guanacos was rediscovered by an Indigenous community near Tupiza. Long believed extinct, their return was both a scientific revelation and a cultural homecoming.
Conservationists from Prometa, an environmental NGO, set out to confirm the sighting and document the species’ fragile comeback. What began as a celebration of hope soon revealed deeper fractures within the landscape, and among those who inhabit it.
"Blood will flow."
Capturing the first-ever footage of the rediscovered guanacos, The Last Herd follows a collision of worlds: conservationists racing to safeguard a vanishing species, Indigenous communities bound to the guanacos by heritage and belief and miners struggling to survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
As mining operations push further into protected terrain, the fragile ecosystem that shelters the guanacos hangs in the balance. The fight to preserve life in this barren, mineral-rich plateau threatens to pit neighbour against neighbour, and turn hope into hostility.
Set against a backdrop of breathtaking isolation and deep cultural ties, the film explores how the battle to save a species becomes a test of survival for everyone involved. Where the fight for the land, its people and its wildlife are all one and the same.
