Time means a different thing for this guy
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Slow ride
A slow moving jungle snail. Huge actually. Almost the size of my palm.
I’ve often wondered whether slow-moving creatures think faster than they can move. That presupposes some level of sentience, but how horrible it would be to process information and make decisions far faster than your limbs (or slime trail) can respond?
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, oriente, photography, snail, wildlife
Giant, giant bug
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Moth, maybe?
Another guest in the wooden house where I stayed in Arutam. The Amazon is full of odd creatures.
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Plantas de la selva: Vol. 13
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Color
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Jungle roofing
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Evil leaves
One of the heaviest days of work for our volunteers involved hauling and collecting leaves from the jungle. These leaves, which resemble palm fronds, were bundled in masse for roofing for a new traditional hut.
Much of the construction material used by the Shuar community comes from its reserve and this is no different. Local materials, locally harvested sounds more sustainable.
The “rope” used to bind the bundles of leaves is actually the husk of young plant stems. See below. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: arutam, construction, en la selva, oriente, photography, shuar, sustainable, volunteering
Life in even the smallest streams
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My little buddy whose name we can't spell
Mean my favorite Shuar boy, a four-year-old named Sing Sang or Thing Thang or Tsing Tsang. Blame the uncertainty on my poor Spanish and inability to understand his accent.
Sing Sang accompanied us on trips occasionally to the jungle alongside his father Jaime. He was energetic little scamp here fishing for river shrimp and crabs in a tiny stream.
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, kid, oriente, photography, shuar, stream, tiny, volunteering
Plantas de la selva: Vol. 12
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Silver in the jungle dark
The Shuar in Arutam live in a place between the modern world of cell phones and synthetic fabrics and their traditional world of forest food and medicine.
This one, in particular, was used for tea and salves and apparently is considered both rare and beneficial to memory.
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Plantas de la selva: Vol. 12
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High, high above the forest
Palms in the Oriente are some of the most useful trees for the Shuar community.
Palms of varying types are used at different stages of their growth: Seeds are actually collected for planting as well as for jewelry and crafts. Leaves are used for covering and roofs. Palm heart — an incredibly tasty but not so sustainable produce — is collected from some trees for food. The roots harbor all manner of insects for eating. And the hardwood of a full-grown tree is precious and durable.
As volunteers, we spend several afternoons gathering their seeds and then dispersing them on to open fields.
Tags: agriculture, arutam, ecuador, en la selva, oriente, palm, palm heart, photography, tree, volunteering
