Eye Trip: Two Years of Photos

Over the last two years I've been collecting some of the best photos of the areas where my organization, Nature & Culture International, carries out conservation and sustainable development work. So, I thought it would be nice to share them with you! Some were taken by me, and others by some of my coworkers. Enjoy!

Baskets woven by women in the Peruvian Amazon, now on sale at the San Diego Zoo and Natural History Museum

Rural community members in southwestern Ecuador

Look into my eyes

Waterfall, Upper Amazon Basin, Ecuador

Furry Friends

Harvesting the fruit of the Palo Santo tree to make an internationally marketed perfume - Amor America

Rural community health and nutrition program

Fuzzy Caterpillar

School kids in front of a giant Ceibo tree

Hiking on top of the world

Home in the deciduous forests of southwestern Ecuador

Giant Ceibo

Goats are the only livestock than can survive in this dry ecosystem (and they're super delicious when slow roasted underground in a dish called Chivo al hueco - Goat in a hole)

Back away... sloooowly

Indigenous Shuar kids out for a swim in southeastern Ecuador on the Peruvian border

Sunset, Cacti and a Ceibo

Indigenous Saraguro people north of the city of Loja

Kids and a Ceibo

Bright Bird

Wispy moss growing on some more Ceibos

SNAKE - It's what's for dinner.

Bird watching with some school kids

Ceibo seeds are encased in big cottony balls that blow away with the wind and litter the ground like snow

Gulls on the coast

Getting some sun

Ribbit

Flowering Guayacan tree

Gray-cheeked parakeet smiling for the camera

"Hey ladies, my croak is louder than all the other guys here..."

Deciduous forest in northern Peru

The making of a great goat farmer

Ceibos have photosynthetic bark so they can continue producing food during the dry season when the tree loses all its leaves.

Soaring sunset

A family of monkeys

Picture perfect cherimoya fruit

Sunbathing lizard

Shuar children in the Upper Amazon of Ecuador

Hanging out in the flowers

A Shuar woman offering up a big bowl of chicha - an alcoholic drink traditionally made by chewing up pieces of yucca and spitting them out into a pot to ferment over the course of several days. Bon Appetit!