Ali=F1ahui is located on the Rio Napo, near Tena
and not far from the Jatun Sacha Biological
Station. It's now also called Butterfly Lodge,
and was established by an entomologist (Dr. Ed
Ross and his wife, Sandy) from the Cal. Academy
of Sciences originally as a research site,
converted now into an ecotourism project. I know
Ed because I was connected with the Cal. Academy
as a field resrearch associate under the late
Luis Baptista in the birds and mammals department.
Bernie
>At 07:06 30-10-05 -0800, you wrote:
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>>Hi Martyn,
>>
>>Recorded last year in the Galapagos (where I finished a soundscape
>>CD), and in and around the Rio Napo on the eastern side of the Andes.
>>The latter was more disappointing because of habitat incursion
>>(deforestation mostly oil drilling) and because so much of the
>>dynamic equilibrium of the critter mix has been greatly compromised.
>>So it is VERY difficult to find places where the biophonic indicators
>>do not reveal themselves as seriously stressed. Last year I found
>>none despite marching way off into the jungle alone. While recording
>>is possible, the results are not convincing. Most obvious, the
>>monkeys were gone (poached), as well as other four-legged critters
>>for the same reason. And a pall of smoke lies over the canopy each
>>morning as more and more forest is slashed and burned. Not a hopeful
>>scenario. For those who wish more insight into the problem in
>>Ecuador, read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.
>
>
>Bernie,
>
>While indeed monkey densities are low in a many areas due to hunting by th=
e
>locals, one can still tape wonderful bird choruses in the Ecuadorian
>Amazon. If one wants to get away from areas affected by oil exploitation
>there is for instance Kapawi lodge on the Pastaza. But even at e.g. La
>Selva, not too far from where oil people are, one still finds Squirrel
>Monkeys, capuchins, Dusky Titis and howlers.
>
>Which locality did you visit?
>
>Cheers, Paul
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>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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