January 2008
Fundación Jocotoco and Sir David Attenborough at launch of Buenaventura webcam project
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Nigel Simpson, Sir David Attenborough, and Lou Jost
(l to r) in the Lecture Theatre of the London Linnean Society. |
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The web-camera, hummingbird feeder and a fruit feeder at the Buenaventura reserve. So far, 32 species of hummingbird have been recorded from the reserve. |
Nigel Simpson represented Fundación Jocotoco at the Linnean Society, London, 17th January, for the launch of the Webcam in the Forest project - an ambitious new webcam live stream from the forests of Buenaventura Reserve .
Developed by FJ's partner organisation, World Land Trust (WLT) the project was launched Sir David Attenborough , Patron of WLT, on Thursday the 17th of January to an invited audience in the Lecture Theatre of the Society.
The live webcam stream will soon be featured on a new WLT website www.wildlifefocus.org , which will also feature virtual tours of the reserve as well as wildlife video clips.
Lou Jost came to the meeting from Ecuador, to present the work of EcoMinga Foundation , which has now formed three reserves in the Río Pastaza valley, to protect rare endemic plants. Following the webcam launch he presented Sir David a photo of a flowering tree which he had discovered and he proposed should be named for Sir David. |
