Today many of the team focused on the threatened queñua (Polylepis spp) forests of the Puina valley. The highest forests of the Andes reaching ...

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Our camp in Puina is called Campamento Torrentero because of the presence of torrent ducks (Merganetta armata) that ride the rapids of the Puina River...

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Today our first amphibian, the marbled four-eyed frog (Pleuroderma marmoratum), another new record for Madidi, found living under stones in the Andean...

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The camera trap team finished the placement of more than 70 camera trap stations across this High Andean landscape. After placement of small mammal tr...

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For the last three days the ichthyologist team, Guido Miranda, Erick Loayza and Jorge Molina has been looking for signs of any native fish species, as...

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Already new vertebrate records for Madidi begin to appear, such as the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) in the globally threatened keñua (Po...

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Our first morning in picturesque Puina is spent meeting with community leaders to finalize details such as identifying the local guides that will help...

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After arriving to Pelechuco in the Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management the night before we begin transferring equipment and food...

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On the 20th of August at half past three in the morning the #IDMadidi team left La Paz to travel to Puina for the second leg of the biodiversity campa...

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A 13-hour drive to La Paz from Apolo for #IDMadidi dominates the day. As thoughts focus on family and home, there is also a satisfaction with the job ...

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