Symbiotic survival of rare birds and rain forests: Researcher involves local residents in Ecuadorian study
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 08:31
in Earth & Climate
On the coast of Ecuador, along the Pacific Ocean, on the western side of the Andes Mountains, lies the Choco rain forest. Here, Jordan Karubian, his students and local residents, whom he's enlisted as "environmental ambassadors," study an endangered species of bird—the long-wattled umbrellabird.