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In Ecuador’s Jama-Coaque Reserve (JCR), nearly every surface is encased with life: moss, ferns, epiphytes and orchids — a color wheel of green in three dimensions. Amid the green, chestnut-headed oropendola nests hang like woven teardrops from towering trees, troops of howler monkeys shout their boundaries and hummingbirds dive-bomb from branch to blossom. JCR protects […]
Scott J. Trageser, The Biodiversity Group After a long hiatus, a mysterious reptile has slithered back into the light. Researchers working in Ecuador’s tropical rainforests report that a Fugler’s shadow snake ( Emmochliophis fugleri) has been found alive after more than five decades of absence from the scientific record. In 2019, Ross Maynard and Scott Trageser, both conservation biologists at The Biodiversity Group in Arizona, were conducting amphibian and reptile surveys in the Río Manduriacu reserve on the Pacific-facing slopes of Ecuador’s Andes mountains. The two … Conti...
Crook admits stealing items from the NCC and other places Article by December 23, 2020 Burglar Justin Dave Clarke has been jailed for 18 months on four offences and he will make another appearance in the new year on another charge. The 33-year-old, of no fixed place of abode, was sentenced this afternoon in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes after pleading guilty to entering the National Conservation Commission (NCC) between December 1 and 2 and stealing a microwave and a radio worth $380. Sergeant Vernon Waithe revealed that the caret...