Momentum mounting for stronger laws to protect Peru’s endangered Andean Condor
[Originally published January 9, 2013] In pre-Hispanic times, the Andean Condor was known as “Apu Kuntur,” a divine messenger from Inti, the Sun God.
Wildlife
Peru growers harness mammal’s digestive tract to strip bitter-taste from very costly coffee beans
Reuters reports that two Peruvian coffee producers — Cecovasa and Chanchamayo Highland Coffee Co. — are now making one of the most expensive coffees in the world by retrieving arabica beans from the dung of a long-nosed jungle mammal called the coati, a tropical cousin of the raccoon.
Top Five Wanderlust Wishlist for 2012
Here we are, three days into the first work week of 2012, but I’m having a hard time concentrating on the tasks at hand.
Peru cracks down on illegal gold miners in Amazon jungle
An update to the Feb. 13, 2011, post about unregulated gold exploitation contaminating and destroying huge swaths of Peru’s mega-diverse southern Amazon jungle:
Orchid specialists to visit Cusco Feb. 25-28 for conservation conference
“The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp with the effort of talking so long. He coughed and a ripple of pain ran through the wasted length of him beneath the covers. Still his eyes burned unwaveringly bright with the memory of the places he had seen and the things he had done, bright with the unquenchable passion for the life he would never suffer or enjoy again.
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