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One of the things that has really impressed the communities in the indigenous territory next to Madidi is our work in protection. They are right next to us. The only thing separating us is a river – but the amount of fauna – it's night and day. Where I live we have everything. The monkeys come right up to my house every day. The smaller monkeys come every day. Spider monkeys are coming back.
The other day I spent two hours, in the stretch of maybe 200 meters, following spider monkeys. And you know, spider monkeys have almost disappeared from pretty large areas in the park, and definitely from this indigenous territory, so that has sparked the interest of the leaders in that territory, and they have been asking us to work more closely with them.
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Feb. '99 Journal