In today’s post we have some news from our field samplings in Meta and Guahinia departments from our project about the distribution of two species of squirrel monkeys in Colombia. We continue with our samplins by land and river.

During our samplings in Meta department, several groups of the Colombian squirrel monkeys were observed. Despite the high deforestation in the buffer area North of Sierra de La Macarena national park, several species of monkeys still can be seen in this area.

However our sampling in Guainía department, still in progress, had prove to be more challenging and with some contrasting surprises. First, some incredible aquatic mammals, giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) let us see it, something not so easy. Few monkeys up to now, although we still have few more days in the field and an unexpected amount of cattle farms in an area where 28 years ago, when I first came, there was none. We still have several areas to sample and hopefully more monkeys to see in an area of contrast and incredible rock formations from the Guyana shield. Forest in this area shows the contrast of the white or black waters that runs nearby and the confluence of rivers with white and rich water versus black and poor waters is evident in the forest height and the animals you can found in each river. This samplings wouldn’t be possible without the logistic support of Fundación Biológica Aroma Verde, a local NGO who help us to organize our samplings. This project is fund by Rewild (Primate Action Fund). More news about this sampling in the following posts…

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