Wild Things, Wild Places by Jane Alexander

Author:Jane Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

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Amazonia

From my diary:

October 2, 2001

A huge moon glowed off the plane’s wing as below a cloud cover put the jungle to bed. I am struck just how far this is from the tumult of the last three weeks. The physical distance catches up to us by satellite—CNN is here in my Tropical Hotel room. But mentally the Amazon is another heaven and earth away. I caught an hour and a half of sleep and then…took a riverboat tour down the Rio Negro’s tannin filled waters to the meeting of the muddy Amazon, a striking contrast…We stopped twice along the river, the people’s road. Although the same tourist items are sold everywhere they are still using too many feathers (Scarlet and Hyacinth Macaw) and snakeskins and heads.

A boy of 10 held a small sloth, while squirrel monkeys scampered about, one baby the beloved pet of a three-year-old fellow. Three sc. Macaws, 1 hyacinth, 2 caiman, a boa, an anaconda were held for photo ops. I am always torn about this—yes, it is better for the animals to be alive for tourists but will they simply get more and more for photo ops?…

One old man in a tourist tent held my hand and said he held Americanos in “regardo”—they know the whole story—they all have satellite antennas on their shacks, all 10 of the river huts.

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