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Marissa's Amazon Memories: 1. Welcome to Jenaro Herrera: Summer 2006
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Thursday, November 15, 2007. 1 Welcome to Jenaro Herrera: Summer 2006. For dinner. It took a little while for my digestive system to adjust and more often than not I wrapped my leftovers in a napkin to feed Bandito, the affectionate but flea ridden resident dog. Photo: Sagino (peccary) soup for lunch. © C. Plowden/Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Photo: Marissa and Victor entering data. © C. Plowden/CACE. Photo: Marissa showing Miller digital photos. © C. Plowden/CACE. 169; C. Plowden/CACE. These ent...
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Angel in the Amazon: 4. Forest Journey - September 2006
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007. 4 Forest Journey - September 2006. Written: December 2006 (translated from Spanish original). I began a very interesting journey in September. Our goal was to find at least 100 copal trees in a primary forest. I was very enthusiastic to find them. I was accompanied in this search by Italo Meléndez, Melanio Meléndez and Mayer. Vásquez. They were woodsmen of Jenaro Herrera with. A lot of experience in investigation who knew the forest of. This area very well. Next we approache...
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: 8/9/09 - 8/16/09
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. New York, New York! Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Saturday, August 15, 2009. New York, New York! I'm eating moldy sawdust, or what the airline-issued cardboard box claims is coffee cake. "For those of you sitting on the left-hand side of the aircraft, you can see the lights of Havana, Cuba as we pass above it," the pilot announces. I glance outside, mid-bite. In Chino, Angel an...
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: 7/12/09 - 7/19/09
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. An update on CACE´s research: From resin to perfum. Not all south americans are born to tango. What´s so funny? Breakfast, lunch and supper. This book is all about you. Yes, the bugs really are that bad. Why I´m here: a better explanation. Glittery headbands and short shorts are in. You need a lot of patience here. Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Thursday, July 16, 2009. We colle...
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: 6/21/09 - 6/28/09
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. For the next six weeks, I will travel along the Amazon River with Dr. Campbell Plowden, president of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology. CACE) in State College, Pennsylvania. We will visit several communities in Loreto. Province, Peru, including Pebas, Brillo Nuevo and Jenaro Herrera. I will interview village artisans.
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: 7/26/09 - 8/2/09
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. Don´t trust the juice. The Maijuna and the Bora: a comparison. Yo hablo castellano, por supuesto. I am a magnet for 16-year-old girls. Chambira belts, snake style. Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. We agreed on chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and fudge drizzle in a waffle cone. "And it would be as big as my head! Exactly," Yully whispers. The lifeja...
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: 8/2/09 - 8/9/09
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. An update on CACE´s research: from weevils to bees. What happened to my windows. Belen, the underworld of Iquitos. Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Thursday, August 6, 2009. An update on CACE´s research: from weevils to bees. Every resin lump in the copal plantations at Jenaro Herrera has its story. Yes, this bee actually is green. It's flashy like a disco ball. Angel and Itolo ha...
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Angel in the Amazon: 2. Introduction to Amazon town Jenaro Herrera
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007. 2 Introduction to Amazon town Jenaro Herrera. Written December, 2006 (translation from Spanish original). The Jenaro Herrera Center of Investigation (CIJH) is located near this town. It is a satellite center of the government Institute for Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), whose mission is to generate and to diffuse knowledge and simple viable technologies for the sustainable forest management of the low forest that support human economic development. 4 Forest Journ...
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Angel in the Amazon: 3. Copal Resin and the Resin Weevils
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007. 3 Copal Resin and the Resin Weevils. Written December 2006 (translated from Spanish original). E larva. I take photos of the same lumps every month and send them to Dr. Plowden. He uses Photoshop to measure the lump sizes to estimate the growth of the lump and the larva inside. Photo: Resin lump made by a weevil larva. © C. Plowden/CACE. Photo: Angel installing a cone mesh trap. © C. Plowden/CACE. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wecome to Angel in the Amazon. These stories...
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log: Belen, the underworld of Iquitos
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Report from the Field: Natalya's Log. Center for Amazon Community Ecology, 29 June - 15 August 2009. An update on CACE´s research: from weevils to bees. What happened to my windows. Belen, the underworld of Iquitos. Center for Amazon Community Ecology. Angel in the Amazon. Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Belen, the underworld of Iquitos. In Belen, boys run around barefoot, clutching kites fashioned out of plastic bags. Girls skip down the road, holding hands. They fall on grass, still holding hands. Lito was bo...