Bosque Protector Pañacocha

I recently was blessed con la suerte de poder realizar una visita íntima a un lugar precioso con alta relevancia en nuestra comunidad extendida de amantes de la naturaleza. Believe it or not I finally made it to Pañacocha, en el oriente ecuatoriano, down into the Amazon Ecuatoriano we went. I was nobody and then I finally made it to Pañacocha, and now I am somebody. Ahora entiendo bien lo que ya entendí bien:

El Bosque Protector Pañacocha es una joya de la naturaleza!

The Río Napo is a world all it's own, very possibly the largest river that I have ever really been on.

The Amazon is under assault from the global petro-chemical industry, all I need to say in this space is that they are laying pipe as fast as they can. This foto is a half-useless image of an effort to snap a shot of the seemingly endless number of trucks heading out into the Amazon carrying every imaginable diameter of this most likely Chinese fabricated pipe material.

As an example of how established protected areas in the Amazon are violated by industry while the true indigenous stewards of the rainforest are marginalized from decision making processes regarding these very same protected areas, totally undermining the legitimacy and effectiveness of traditional Western nature protection practices, el Bosque Protector Pañacocha is increasingly isolated, an island of intact forest on the petrolero penetrated landscape, threatened by road building and held hostage by the fossil fuel industry. Still it remains a truly wild and natural expanse of the Amazon rainforest, hogar de los pueblos originarios, lungs of the planet and conservation imperative of humanity. While up Pañayaku exploring we could occasionally hear the hummmm of motors on the distant Napo, and even saw the apocalyptic pulsating flame light of pipeline and oil industry gas flaring in the distance against the clouds and fogs of the jungle night sky. It is all too clear that the extractivist pressure is unrelenting in the Amazon. This is simply not sustainable, it is suicide to exploit these remaining forests, and the clarion call that we must dramatically change the course of this industrial exploitation has never been louder. It is also clear that the efforts to protect Pañacocha will remain standing. I am so appreciative of having made the journey! Thanks and appreciations to those who have invested so much sweat and tears into the long term protection of the human and natural communities of Pañacocha, el Bosque Protector es tarea de tod@s! La vida es una fucking hermosura, DE LEY, no lo vamos a malgastar. Viva Pañacocha, viva Pañayaku, viva la Amazonas!