Monday, January 4, 2010

Madre de Dios, part 1

Motoring up the Madre de Dios River on rising water to Los Amigos Research Station.

Floating aluvial gold mining operations which use mercury to separate gold which of course gets into the carnivorous fish which then migrate hundreds of miles and get eaten by people and raptors which show high levels of mercury even when tested 20 km from the river. People have not been tested.

Anaconda kicks back in shallows of an oxbow lake. It unwound and cruised under our boat.

Emperor Tamarin Monkey. Regal, curious, not at all scared of ground primates.




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