The End of an Era

After over 6 years of intensive research and community development work in and around the Yachana Reserve, GVI Amazon is coming to a close. We have finished our final research project (look forward to our Road Effects paper, coming soon!) and are handing over the project to our partner, The Yachana Foundation. They will continue to maintain and monitor the reserve, using it as an hands-on science education center for students -- we're very excited to see what fabulous things this next generation of scientists find! For more detail on GVI Amazon's closure, and our accomplishments over the years, please read on...
GVI Amazon Closure Statement

Friday, November 26, 2010

Into The Unknown...

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Today was one small step for Olly, Kristen and I but one giant leap for the Yachana Reserve. We set off this afternoon as intrepid explorers going into the unknown with only a GPS to protect us.

The north eastern corner of the reserve has never been studied or mapped before and the topographic maps on the GIS programme indicated that there is a big depression which potentially may hold a stream with a collection of tributaries. Our objective for the afternoon was to find out if there were any streams and to map the location and route of any we found.

Olly, Kristen and I set off from base after lunch at a fast pace and made it to the point where we intended to leave the trail in good time. Within ten minutes of leaving the trail we stuck gold and found a small but fast flowing (it has rained a lot this week) stream. We walked along the stream plotting points on the GPS every five meters. We knew no recent GVI staff and volunteers had ever been along that stream before and judging by the density of the undergrowth, nobody had walked along it in years, if at all. It was quite exciting to think that we were the first people (or at least the first people for a very long time) to walk that route...


Phil Brown - GVI Amazon Conservation Intern, Oct 2010-Mar 2011


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