PeruCuscoKosñipata12°57’26” S 71°21’3” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 25 °C
Copal planted with restaureca2. we just passed by on the road so I took a quick picture
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°57’37” S 71°20’52” W 3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 25 °C
Akino, the most enthousiastic member of the community had an accident with his gun yesterday when hunting wild boars. It exploded and hurt his arms so they had to take him to the hospital in Cusco. Czytaj więcej
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°58’13” S 71°20’43” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
There are some tubes along the road that are not measurement locations, but they indicate where to go uphill for the measurement location. So these tubes are obviously outside the plot
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°58’14” S 71°20’45” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
What would have happened sin the project? It would keep being secondary forest.
Too inclined for agriculture production
POA is needed for bosque primario, but this is secundary forest so no permit Czytaj więcej
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°58’13” S 71°20’45” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
The tube indicates where a circular measurement of 8m diameter was taken during the volunteership of Charlie, recent graduate of UGent. It is supposed to stay there for 20 years to do the same Czytaj więcej
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°58’14” S 71°20’45” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 27 °C
Aguano=tornillo
15 years ago the plot stopped being used for agriculture. No plans to have agriculture again here
He planted castaña but it died. He planted it for the fruit/nuts. It died because Czytaj więcej
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°58’15” S 71°20’47” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 27 °C
Maintenance of the plot is done by the owners of the land. Sometimes they get paid a daily wage for their labour. The payment is 70 soles per day for this work.
In the field we did measurements with Czytaj więcej
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°57’52” S 71°20’49” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
They keep the banana plants together to help them resist the winds. This is the normal banana not the starchy kind. Every thursday they can harvest banana
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°57’19” S 71°21’12” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 25 °C
This plot is very steep so we could not really enter very safely or without losing a lot of time. All of the pictures are from the reforested plot
PeruCuscoKosñipata12°57’23” S 71°21’9” W
3 grudnia 2023, Peru ⋅ 🌩️ 25 °C
We met this forest guard accidentally on the road so we stopped to have a conversation. He goes to the forest every 2 weeks to check disturbances. Alone, or with others from the community. He has seen Czytaj więcej
