At 06:34 31-10-05 -0800, you wrote:
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>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,
This area is quite messed up, with a lot of hunting and forest
fragmentation, and you picked the wrong spot indeed. You need to go to one
of the lodges further east to get a better balance. Least affected are
Kapawi and Tiputini. Also Napo Wildlife Centre is a great place.
Cheers, Paul
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