The Tapiche River and reserve - a tropical paradise that is in peril.

Albert Slugocki (October 29, 1931 – December 9, 2023)   Margaret Vaccaro Slugocki (May 10, 1943 – March 23, 2024)   It is hard to...

In which trail cameras reveal hidden secrets Whereas an embarrassment of dolphins is encountered While leviathan rules the river And a...

Yep, I got mugged in the Amazon. Accosted by a plant, no less. "Costus" sounds like the name of an ancient Greek god. That's not too far...

As we move towards 18 months of enduring the Covid-19 pandemic, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. A new report from...

A couple of months ago, I was asked by at contact at the Wyss Institute (Harvard) to develop a list of medical conditions that would...

The closest Home Depot is 3300 km (~2000 miles) away in Miami. The nearest cement truck is on the other side of the Andes Mountain range....

When our general manager in Peru, Fernando Rios, emailed me in early November 2020 saying that a storm had felled hundreds of trees at...

April 2021 update: Peru is still open to travel and with the same requirements noted below. With the spread of new variants of Covid-19...

Gary Selnow is a good person. His boss is Finnegan, a golden retriever, so you know he's a really nice guy. Golden retrievers have good...

This is an ongoing review of the "progress" of the novel coronavirus in Peru and the Peruvian Amazon. Information has been garnered from...

A bit of context-edited background at the start, originally written on 20 March 2020: Peru has taken a very aggressive approach to...

Coronavirus continues to rip through Peru, one of the most affected countries in Latin America