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Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

June 12, 2023June 10, 2023 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Mayra Parra presses play on her laptop, and the video on the screen comes to life for the Perez family in the town of Abriaquí, Colombia. As a spectacled bear ambles into view, scratching its back against a towering roble tree, the smiles on the faces of three generations of the family quickly burst into […]

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The bears and the bees: How honey is helping to save the spectacled bear

The bears and the bees: How honey is helping to save the spectacled bear

January 28, 2022January 22, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

A bear cub with distinctive yellow circling about the eyes is caught on camera, deep in the dry forests of the Andes mountain range in Bolivia. Beside it, a glimpse of the shaggy black fur of its mother. For six months, researchers had laid camera traps across a 600-square-kilometer area, trying to catch sight of […]

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The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests

The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests

June 18, 2021June 12, 2021 Supertrooper Leave a comment

EL PALMAR, Bolivia — It was worth the journey. After sweating across the scrubby Bolivian mountainsides, stepping into the forest was like entering a different world. Twisted pino de monte pines trailed ghostly green-gray lichens into our faces. Ferns and, much to my surprise, moss sprung from the cracks in the bark and the little […]

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Paddington Bear Captured on Camera in Peru

Paddington Bear Captured on Camera in Peru

June 23, 2018December 23, 2019 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Among the top articles from our Spanish language service, Mongabay Latam, for the week of June 4 – 10 was one about a golden spectacled bear named after Paddington Bear that was caught by a camera trap for the first time in Peru. The image above by Michael Tweddle shows the golden spectacled bear caught […]

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Golden Spectacled Bear (The real Paddington bear)

Golden Spectacled Bear (The real Paddington bear)

November 25, 2016December 23, 2019 Michael Tweddle 4 Comments

By: Michael Tweddle Lucky to share this natural instinct by enjoying and admiring wildlife. Life has led me to travel to such places that when I was a child taught me characters as Jacques Cousteau and TV documentaries such as the National Geographic, Transtel Cologne and BBC among others. Happy today, after thirty years taking […]

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