A great catch
- 25 Mar 08, 11:09 AM
Bruce hooks a pirarucu
On the trail of the Amazon's biggest fish
- 13 Mar 08, 02:27 PM
Posted from: Jaraua
Mamiraua is beautiful. 90% of the reserve is flooded by the end of the wet season in May - the water rises about 15 metres. Everyone and everything here is ready to adapt to the change. The houses in Jaraua are either built on stilts or floating ready for the floods. Still, the inside walls of the front room of Dona Lourdes' house are stained at about neck height by the mark of high water from a few years ago.
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Fish Stock
- 13 Mar 08, 11:31 AM
Posted from: Sao Raimundo do Jaraua in the Sustainable Development Reserve, Mamiraua.
We have been here for three days now. This is a small community of about 20 wooden houses on the banks of a river channel called Jarau谩. The channel comes off the main river Japur谩, and Japur谩 feeds the Amazon river itself about 36 kilometres downriver from here.
Floating through Ages
- 13 Mar 08, 09:47 AM
Posted from: Jarauara Community - Rio Japura.
The Priest was right. He's a Catholic and entitled to be I suppose. The Catholic faith is massively on the resurgence here. Maybe they all believe his theories on mosquitoes. Not a part of my body is munch-free.
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Bruce Parry, presenter of the 成人论坛's Tribe, travelled the length of the Amazon to film a major new series for 成人论坛 Two, shown in autumn 2008. You can relive his journey online through exclusive blogs, video and much more.
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