Los Amigos, a field station in southern Peru, run by the ACA is bristling with life. The lowland forest that surrounds the station is home to 11 species of monkey, jaguars, tapirs, hundreds of bird species and a dazzling variety of arthropods – my personal favourites. One evening at the …
[featured image] Agriculture enabled humans to forsake the unforgiving ways of hunter-gathering in favour of a much more salubrious lifestyle. The cultivation of other species, which is what agriculture essentially is, rates as probably the single most important technological breakthrough in human history. With that said, humans are not the …