Plantas de la selva: Vol. 3
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Succulent
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, flowers, jungle, oriente, photography
Sacred waters
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Prayer
The Shuar consider waterfalls in their community a source power and respect them deeply. Here, Sebastian, one of the volunteer guides, has a moment of quiet with a waterfall deep in the jungle, after the volunteers finished goofing off.
Tags: arutam, cascada, ecuador, en la selva, environment, oriente, photography, shuar, volunteering, waterfall
Plantas de la selva: Vol. 2
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Almost waxen
Our series of interesting and/or weird plants continues. Any botanist out there can feel free to identify.
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, oriente, photography, plants
Primary forest, sustainable life cycle
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Old growth
At Arutam, the Shuar community where I worked, the villagers are responsible for a couple thousand hectares of Amazon, allotted to them by the government. Their model, with the hands and dollars of ecotourists and paying volunteers (me), is to develop a small portion of the forest — cutting for banana plantations and fish ponds and whatnot — while keeping pressure off the remaining primary forest.
The above photo shows a tree reaching into the upper jungle canopy. The tree, by the estimates of our guides, could be 200 years old. In the present model, it’s protected because of, not in spite of, the community clearing land nearer the road and their homes for agriculture and aquaculture. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: arutam, ecuador, emerging nations, en la selva, environment, oriente, photography, plants, shuar, trees, volunteering
Plantas de la selva: Vol. 1
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Necesito un libre bontanico
There will be lots of these pictures, of flowers from the jungle, whose name Spanish or English name the local community doesn’t know. Hell, some of them don’t even have Shuar names.
But I’ve photographed them and will wait for word from a botanist, if one is reading.
Tags: ecuador, en la selva, environment, oriente, photography, plants, shuar, volunteering
Vulcan Sangay
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Fire
The view from the bluff, where I stayed en la selva. This was the only day in almost four weeks that the horizon was this clear. To the left is Vulcan Sangay, in Sangay National Park. The park, home to two of Ecuador’s active volcanoes, is an endangered UNESCO World Heritage site.
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, landscape, oriente, photography, sangay national park, vulcan sangay
Hola de Ecuador
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Pintura
So I’ve run out of pictures from the times in the U.K. And while the blog sputters a bit, enjoy my Shuar guide Enrique painting my face.
I’m on the coast now enjoying lazy days of seafood and diving. Galapagos in a little more than a week.
Tags: ecaudor, en la selva, enrique, environment, facepaint, shenanigans, shuar, volunteering
