Hi everyone!

As you may or may not know for the past 5months I have been living and working in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador. During this time I have grown to love the forest, the animals within it, and the people that surround it. We wrap up our work here on September 22 of this year and want to go out with a bang! So we are organizing a BioBlitz – 5 hectic days of 24hr fauna surveying trying to add as many new species to our reserves list as possible as a parting gift to our partner, the Yachana Foundation. Its gonna be hectic! My project involves sending up mist nets into the canopy and catching us some toucans, plus a whole heap of cryptic canopy species that we don’t know are there, plus call playback and a tonne of other stuff. Other surveys we are running include amphib and reptile surveys, sending camera traps into the canopy, camera traps at peccary wallows, and a whole heap of other crazy stuff! The money we raise is going towards a project we are funding as a goodbye gift for our closest community that we play football with every week – Puerto Rico. With the money you fine people donate we are going to set up a seedling project where the youths tend to them, and then grow the trees up with the long-term aim of a sustainable forestry program. Please give generously as the Amazon is in danger and we want to help the communities look after it as best as they can!

 

 

 

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