A behavioural observation of two Didelphis marsupialis (Common Opossum)

20Dec2012 0 Comments Categories:Conservation Science, Conservation Stories, Wildlife Research & ConservationTags: Amazon, Fauna Forever, las piedras, opossum, Peru, rainforest, research, Tambopata, transect, volunteer

…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 [...]

Mimicry – by Ashley Anne Wick

09Aug2010 1 Comment Categories:Conservation Research Team, Conservation ScienceTags: Amazon, ants, butterflies, insects, Lepidoptera, mimicry, moths, transect

(This blog entry is dedicated to former FFT volunteer Sofia Prado. She never got to hear my mimicry talk because we were all frozen – like butterflies – during the epic friaje that signaled the end to our last phase). I am a Lepidopterist. And, for better or worse, I will remain one for the [...]

Tambopata, Explorer’s Inn…………Back to Maldonado – by George Bareham

01Jun2010 0 Comments Categories:Conservation Research News, Conservation Research Team, Useful Volunteer InformationTags: Baltimore, brazil nut, collpa, Explorer's Inn, macaw, shaman, transect

So, permits obtained we were then on the EI bus up the dusty road to the Infierno Community where we caught the boat up to Explorer’s Inn (EI). It’s about an hour’s trip upriver from there. I’d been here a year ago and nothing had changed apart from one of the pet macaws had been [...]