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Entre los Huachipaeri el mundo donde habitamos, denominado Wandari, ya estaba ahí antes que aparezcan las personas y tenía una forma similar a la actual, pero existía también un mundo encima del nuestro llamado Kurundari, y un mundo debajo denominado Seronhaihue, además de otros lugares míticos inalcanzables por los humanos.

Existían también distintas entidades espirituales y personajes míticos que se relacionaban con las personas como los seres del río llamados Wuaneri y los seres del bosque denominados Numberi, los cuales podían ser espíritus buenos (Oteri) o espíritus malos (Asito), o buenos y malos a la vez, dependiendo del comportamiento de las personas hacia ellos.

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BDFFP (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort between Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian. The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin.

The WHRC Amazon Program has been working in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 with a strategy combining basic research with education and training of local peoples in a problem solving approach to resource use.

Raintree's Tropical Online Database features in-depth information and research on more than 100 rainforest medicinal plants.

GOES satellite imagery of fires in the Amazon is a NOAA program led by Elaine Prins at the University of Wisconsin.

The Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is dedicated to pioneering new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document, and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon.

The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project is funded through a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland at College Park's Geography Department, Michigan State University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's GIMMS Group. The goal of this work is to map global deforestation for the humid tropics. Data sets from both the TM (Thematic Mapper) and MSS (Multispectral Scanner System) of Landsat are being used for three time periods in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (EISP). Our mission is to provide NASA data products and information services to the science, resource management, and policy and education communities.

International Organizations

www.Amazonia.org.br This general site is rich with information on the Amazon, ranging form the economy to parks and nature reserves.

Located at the fork of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, along with the Auti-Paraná channel in the state of Amazonas (with a total area of 1,124,000 hectares), this reserve constitutes the largest Brazilian flooded forest conservation unit, and the only one in Brazil that is tooled up to protect the Amazonian floodplain ecosystem. Project administration is the responsibility of the Mamirauá Civil Society, a not-for-profit civil organization created in 1992, the principal objective of which is to contribute to the conservation and preservation of renewable natural resources, especially in areas of flooded forest.

The aim of BDT is the dissemination of electronic information as a tool for the organization of the scientific and technological community of Brasil. It disseminates biological information of environmental and industrial interest and through this, hopes to contribute directly to the conservation and sustainable use of Brazil's biological resources.

This site will be periodically updated on research activities being carried out by various European and Brazilian institutions and organizations for a wise management of Amazonian ecosystems.

Brazilian Embassy in Washington. Here you will find a wide-range of information on Brazil and the activities of the Brazilian Embassy in the United States, as well as links to Brazilian institutions.

Amazon research programs

These Web sites deals exclusively with the LBA-Ecology component of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. Other LBA issues of general interest to LBA-Ecology participants may are linked and introduced. LBA is an international research initiative led by Brazil, focusing on how changes in land use and climate will affect the chemical, biological, and physical functions of the amazon region and the global climate. This project will quantify the net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and water in a primary forest site, defining the net source or sink of CO2 from the undisturbed forest.

The Global Rainforest Mapping project (GRFM) by the Japanese JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was begun in mid-1995. This project seeks to map the worlds rainforest regions to high resolution by using this Earth-orbiting SAR. By mapping these regions during a single season, a number of interesting scientific questions may be answered.

The Sustainable Forest Management Project provides baseline biological and socioecconomic information underlying the development of advanced forest management strategies, providing assistance with institution building and analysis for silviculture, environmental conservation, and ecotourism.

This research project combines social science survey methods with environmental modeling and landscape ecology to seek a better understanding of land use/land cover (LULC), land use/land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and the forces influencing deforestation and agricultural practices

Amazon bird sightings Spotted Sandpiper Black-fronted Nunbird Green Oropendola Solitary Sandpiper Scarlet-crowned Barbet Russet-backed Oropendola From the original checklist: Large-billed Tern Chestnut-eared Aracari Yellow-rumped Cacique Yellow-billed Tern Lettered Aracari Solitary Black Cacique Neotropic Cormorant Black Skimmer Cream-colored Woodpecker Velvet-fronted Grackle Anhinga Ruddy Pigeon Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Yellow-hooded Blackbird White-necked Heron (Cocoi) Plumbeous Pigeon Crimson-crested Woodpecker Orange-backed Troupial Great Egret (Common Egret) Blue and Yellow Macaw Long-billed Woodcreeper Oriole Blackbird Snowy Egret Scarlet Macaw Pale-legged Hornero White-vented Euphonia Striated Heron (Green-backed) Chestnut-fronted Macaw Purple-throated Cotinga Hooded Tanager Capped Heron Red-bellied Macaw Plum-throated Cotinga Blue-gray Tanager Rufescent Tiger Heron White-eyed Parakeet Bare-necked Fruitcrow Palm Tanager Jabiru Stork Dusky-headed Parakeet Amazonian Umbrellabird Silver-beaked Tanager Green Ibis Canary-winged Parakeet Yellow-margined Flycatcher Masked Crimson Tanager Horned Screamer Cobalt-winged Parakeet Drab Water-tyrant Grayish Saltator Muscovey Duck Tui Parakeet White-headed Marsh-tyrant Red-capped Cardinal Black Vulture Short-tailed Parrot Dusky-capped Flycatcher Variable Seedeater Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Blue-headed Parrot Lesser Kiskadee Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Festive Parrot Great Kiskadee Turkey Vulture Yellow-headed Parrot Boat-billed Flycatcher Others (not on original checklist): Plumbeous Kite Orange-winged Parrot Social Flycatcher Snail Kite (Everglades Kite) Mealy Parrot Tropical Kingbird Yellow-hooded blackbird Roadside Hawk Squirrel Cuckoo Eastern Kingbird Band-tailed oropendola Gray Hawk Greater Ani Masked Tityra Yellow-crowned tyranulet Slate-colored Hawk Smooth-billed Ani Black-crowned Tityra Bank swallow Black-collared Hawk Ferruginous Pygmy-owl White-winged Swallow Black-bellied whistling duck Great Black Hawk Great Potoo Brown-chested Martin Sand-colored night hawk Ornate Hawk-eagle Pauraque Gray-breasted Martin Pectoral sandpiper Crane Hawk Ladder-tailed Nightjar Southern Martin Black-crowned night heron Osprey White-collared Swift Black & White Swallow Chestnut-bellied seed finch Laughing Falcon Fork-tailed Palm Swift Southern Rough-winged Swallow Red and green macaw Black Caracara Ringed Kingfisher Barn Swallow Glittering-throated hummingbird Yellow-headed Caracara Amazon Kingfisher Thrush-like Wren Orange-fronted plush crown Bat Falcon Green Kingfisher Black-capped Mockingthrush Lemon-throated barbet Hoatzin Green & Rufous Kingfisher Shiny Cowbird Wren American Finfoot Chestnut Jacamar Giant Cowbird Blue-crowned trogon Sunbittern White-chinned Jacamar Crested Oropendola Sungrebe Wattled Jacana Swallow-winged Puffbird

Slide 25: Appendix II – Other wildlife sightings Brown-throated Three-toed sloth Long-nosed Bat Wagner's Sac-winged Bat Fishing Bat Greater-Lined Sac-winged Bat Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat Saddle-backed Tamarin Night Owl Monkey Saki Monkey Brown Capuchin Squirrel Monkey Red Howler Monkey Pink River Dolphin Note: The bird and wildlife lists Gray River Dolphin include only those species spotted Yellow-crowned brush tail rat in the Amazon and confirmed by the Green iguana naturalist guides. Some guests may Owl butterfly have seen additional birds and Piranha wildlife on their own.

Slide 26: Appendix III – Recipe for Juane from our onboard cooking demonstration Peruvians celebrate the Festival of San Juan each June 23-24 with this classic. Similar to a tamale, the dish uses the leaves of an indigenous rain forest plant called bijao. The leaves are probably impossible to find outside of South America, so substitute with banana leaves or cork husks, for a close match. 2 cups cooked rice (al dente) bone-in chicken thighs 1 small red onion, chopped 2-3 garlic cloves, minced 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon dried oregano salt, pepper, tumeric to taste 1-2 tablespoon cooking oil (olive or vegetable) 3 eggs bijao leaves, passed over an open flame to soften * sliced black olives (to taste) 1. In a frying pan, sauté the onion, garlic, bay leaves, oregano, salt, pepper and turmeric in 1-2 T cooking oil until tender. 2. Put the onion/garlic mixture with the chicken in a pot of 3 cups of water. Boil for 20 minutes or until the chicken is half-cooked. Remove the chicken and onion/garlic mixture, reserving the broth. 3. Put the rice in a large bowl and add the eggs and broth. Stir until combined. 4. Scoop the rice mixture onto a leaf and top with one piece of chicken and the onion/garlic mixture. Twist the bijao leaf tightly until it resembles an overlapping head of lettuce and fold the top over. The goal here is to make each “package” water tight. Tie package tightly with a strip of the leaf or kitchen string. 5. Place each “package” in a pot of water. The water should cover the juane. Boil covered for 40 minutes. * can substitute with banana leaves (decide whether they need softening first) or corn husks (soaked first in hot water according to the directions on the package). If you use corn husks, you may need to remove the chicken from the bones first, as a whole thigh won’t fit in one husk

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