Restoration In Eastern Cloudforest in Ecuador
Restoration In Eastern Cloudforest in Ecuador
Restoration In Eastern Cloudforest in Ecuador
Restoration In Eastern Cloudforest in Ecuador
The Adventure of Becoming a Naturalist, my Early Days in the Field. Ecuador has huge variety of ecosystems through the territory. My scenario was the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Almost my entire life is being in the humidity. Spend time in the Andes mountains, Quito was base. My early days in the forest attending a…
The Adventure of Becoming a Naturalist, my Early Days in the Field. My name is Jarol Fernando; I had the fortune to be raised in different locations throughout the beautiful Country of South America: Ecuador. Adventure is an easy game to catch with you in the Neotropics, all you need is to have a sense…
The Cloudforest in Eastern Ecuador is shared with Colombia, Perú and Bolivia. The extended bioregion is among the most biodiverse on the planet. It is home of the most abundant water drainage system in the planet. There is no other commodity more valuable than water. The natural ability to produce these widely use commodity set…
The Beauty of the Orchids has captured humankind attention for thousands of years. In Ecuador, the smallest country in South America, one the richest landmark in Orchid diversity. Sumaco Ñahui is located between two major protected areas in Eastern Ecuador: The Sumaco-Galeras National Park and the Antisana Wildlife Reserve. We are exploring the whole area…
Today, we found a closed area inside the Cloudforest in Eastern Ecuador, away from the ranching a magical places was about to be discovered. We end up in the lower part of Sumaco Ñahui property, from there we hike up following stream and the entered a tangle forest with liana and wild bambu. This exercise…
Ants are almost everywhere in the Neotropics. They have conquered almost every niches nature has crafted. The Cloudforest in Eastern Ecuador is home for several kinds of ants. We found a social ants moving along the pheromone trail, as you can see they get agitated when noticing my presence, they smell my CO2 from my…
Plain-breasted Hawk (Accipiter ventralis) It occurs in the coastal mountains of northern Venezuela and Colombia, south through the Andes from western Venezuela, through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, to central Bolivia. A disjunct population occurs in the Tepuis of southern Venezuela. It is, as far as known, resident, but some local movements may occur.
The Colorful Andean Cock of the Rock lives in the Eastern Cloudforest of Ecuador! This colorful bird lives inside the primary cloudforest, it feeds on ripe fruits, special interest in the avocado family fruits. The Andean Cock of the Rock is the most impressive bird of the Cloudforest. They can be easily found for their…
~ A Cloudforest Restoration Dream in Eastern Ecuador! I grew up in the lowlands in Eastern Ecuador, a small jungle town next to the headwater of the Mighty Napo River. At that time I remember the water was very cold, extremely cold for our understandas., we have to wait sitting on the big boulders just…
