Second chance for the victims of the illegal traffic
The last refuge for the Scarlet macaw
Legal consumption eggs of turtles
Sustainable management of forest resources
Threats on the monkey-spider
Efforts for the sloths
Volunteers in support for the marine turtles
Soon: Galapagos, the blackberry in sights
Portrait of a Shiwiar
The forest pharmacy: welcome in the universe of healing plants
Gold organic green and fair
The jungle in the Mayan civilization
Yasuni, the garden of Eden
Arthropods to understand the Mayan life
Scientific inventory of the butterflies
Soon: mangrove swamps, when forests walk on the water
Orellana Province , Ecuador.
In the North of the Ecuadorian Amazonia, the National Park Yasuni is considered by some scientists as the site the most diversified on earth. Its station of research, managed by the catholic University of Quito, is the point of experts meeting of the whole world. Since 1995, to better understand the dynamics of tropical forests and their role in the carbon cycle on a global scale, the team of Dr. Renato Valencia, Ecuadorean botanist, lead a broad plant survey. The first results are stunning. On a plot of only 50 hectares, 1 164 species of trees have been identified with a record of 644 species per hectare! (Against about an average of ten in our european moderate forests). César Gabriel Grefa Mamallacta, technician for the project Carbon, takes us in this garden of Eden and presents us the scientific protocol which gives rhythm to his everyday life.
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