Story courtesy of Mongabay.com Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or clay [...]
Read morePhase 1 First of all I’ll explain the phases. We are spending most of our time in the field in ARCC (Amazon Research and Conservation Centre). It’s currently a tourist lodge based along the Las Piedras River in Madre de Dios. To get there from The Fauna Forever house based in Puerto Maldonado it takes [...]
Read more…The transect began at 18:30, which seems to be a good time for mammals. About that time everyone starts moving around, foraging, hunting, hiding in the darkness. The trail itself ran loosely towards the river, dipping from terra firme into floodplain, crossing clear streams with sandy beds on fallen giant trees before abruptly turning east [...]
Read more. Fauna Forever volunteers working in the Las Piedras area of Tambopata in Peru’s Amazon Rainforest caught a juvenile Anaconda. The team of herpetofauna experts and volunteers were able to take important research data and observations about the animal before releasing it safely back into the wild. Caught by: Brian Crnobrna Age: Juvenile Sex: Female [...]
Read morePatrick is a Research & Conservation Intern from Canada, focussing mostly on forest caiman. Las Piedras Biodiversity Station is an ecotourist site and research station located 2 days upriver from Puerto Maldonado. During my time at Las Piedras, three primary habitats where surveyed for Paleosuchus trigonatus and P. palpebrosus. For a long portion of our [...]
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