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November 21, 2012
Beginning in the fall of 1997, my wife, 7 year old daughter, 2 year old son, and I lived for a year with the Tembé Indians in the eastern Brazilian Amazon while I did field work for my PhD in …
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November 19, 2012
The Center for Amazon Community Ecology is pleased to welcome Robin van Loon as the newest member of the CACE Advisory Board. Robin is the founder and executive director of Camino Verde, a non-profit organization dedicated to planting trees in …
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November 02, 2012
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November 02, 2012
The Center for Amazon Community Ecology began studying the ecology of copal trees, its resin, and insects associated with it at the Jenaro Herrera research station in Peru in 2006. While our initial focus was on the weevils that prompted …
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November 01, 2012
VIEW FULL-SIZE MAP Site Icons (Click in map to see description) Green: Brillo Nuevo – Bora native village – field site for CACE research on essential oils and handicraft project Purple: Jenaro Herrera – town and government research station – …
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July 23, 2012
July 20, 2012 After my presentation to the Grand Valley University students at the Rainforest Conservation Fund lodge near Chino, one of their Peruvian field assistants gave me a golden tip – the name and phone number of a fellow …
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July 21, 2012
July 11, 2012 I had a bit of a false start getting to Chino. I had always gone there before in the speed boat belonging to the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF), but since it was occupied, I need to take …
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July 19, 2012
July 6, 2012 After a few days to catch my breath in Iquitos, I left with Angel on the Thursday afternoon lancha Las Ninfas for Jenaro Herrera. We had a good long talk about our research and families in Spanish …
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July 18, 2012
July 2, 2012 While the rain and soccer had delayed our departure from Puca Urquillo by an hour or so, we still had enough time to make a quick stop at the village of Santa Lucia de Pro – the …
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July 17, 2012
July 1, 2012 Before leaving Nueva Esperanza, Yully and I had packed just enough things for our overnight stay in Puca Urquillo so Oscar dropped us off at the Bora side of the village and went on to Pebas for …
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July 16, 2012
June 30, 2012 When we loaded our gear into Oscar’s boat to head downriver from Brillo Nuevo, we laid down one plastic tarp on the bottom first, placed our big bags in it and then put another tarp on top …
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July 14, 2012
June 30, 2012 – Brillo Nuevo While the canela moena and copal leaf distillations didn’t produce much oil, their briefness let us begin the next round of surveying chambira palms in the purmas (fallow forest-farm fields) of the artisans. Over …
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July 10, 2012
June 28, 2012 – Brillo Nuevo Our task for Wednesday was to extract as much oil from the leaves from the palo de rosa (rosewood), copal and canela moena we had collected the day before. In all of our previous …
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July 09, 2012
June 26, 2012 I met our three new forest crew members right after breakfast and gave them a quick overview of latitude and longitude and how a GPS device uses signals from multiple satellites to fix a precise position on …
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July 08, 2012
June 25, 2012 I have always looked forward to going to the Bora native community of Brillo Nuevo because it has come to feel like my village home away from home. I liked and felt accepted by most people I …
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July 05, 2012
June 25, 2102 While Yully and her husband Victor zipped off on his motorcycle to get a few last minute supplies, I wandered into the modestly appointed Bar La Rejita just outside the main gate to Puerto de Pescadores. My …
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