Key word: Decomposition We spend lots of time looking down as we run, as we need to avoid the boulders and thorns. What we also see is poo- don’t worry not David’s or mine! No, sheep, horse and cattle dung. Have you ever examined the dung of your local cow or horse? Well you should! …
From 12 year old Leila, Montevideo, Uruguay. “Can you speak to birds?” Answer: Yes. When we were working in the Eastern Caribbean surveying seabirds, we would get into our kayak at night and paddle to the little islands close to us. Once we were close enough, we would drift on the waves and play the …
Question From George, Longhorsley, UK “Why didn’t you take Wellington boots with you?” Answer: Yes, we would have loved to have a pair of Wellington boots each to keep our feet dry. A very good idea. The problem is we are pulling all our gear with us and so have to be very careful not …
“The Story of Stuff” Check out this website, ver este sitio web: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/ It is a fantastic incite into the human being’s consumption addiction in English with Spanish subtitles. Esta chica pelicula es fantastico- un ojo de la consumicion de ser humano! En ingles con subtitles en espanol. And this is the website y el sitio …
We´re aiming to speak to over 1000 students and teachers along the 5000mileproject route about the expedition and its “raison d´etre”: “running for South America´s wild places and wildlife” We present in Spanish as best we can; we´re constantly
Question Part 2. From four year old Benjamin, Dulverton, UK What sort of animals live in the rainforest? ANSWER: We can’t wait to be running through the Amazon tropical rainforest of Brazil and Bolivia. Tropical rainforests have the most different plants and animals of anywhere in the world. This is partly because all animals depend …
Question. from four year old Benjamin, Dulverton, UK What sort of animals live in the rainforest? Answer A: Well we’re in temperate rainforest in Chile at the moment. It is like tropical rainforest, but a lot colder! So I’m tapping from the tent under some massive old southern beech trees wrapped in feather jackets! The …
KEY WORDS: alerce trees, temperate rainforest, shingle houses, adobe houses, Andes mountains, conifer trees We’re running through Patagonia, Southern Chile at the moment. The road is made of hard-packed gravel, cobbles and stones. This is especially hard work for running, as we have to pull the trailer with greater force over the surface, as there …
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Watch the 1 minute video below as I try it out – its true!! I had never though it would be possible to speak to a bird but wildlife legend Sir David Attenborough shows us what is possible on a short video clip at our friends at Conservacion Patagonica. With this fresh in my mind, …
Key words: Camouflage, Pampas, Chile, Argentina, Least Seedsnipe Yesterday we were running through a very flat landscape of yellows, browns and dark greens. Tussocky spiky grasses and low thorny scrub stretched into the horizon with pebbles and boulders for miles. This is the Pampas- the grassland and shrubland of southern Chile and Argentina. A wild …
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