Salmon Cakes Without Eggs

Reserve Cuyabeno Faunal Production. Ecuador. (I)

We left Quito at 11 pm on a travel after more than eight hours away by bus would take us to Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve , located in the province of Sucumbios in the northeast of Ecuador, bordering with neighboring Colombia and Peru. As we approached our destination we saw one of the dangers that lurk in this area, numerous oil wells connected by a pipeline parallel to the road. The second danger is the advancement of agricultural land, due to the action of the settlers formally promoted by the state. Although the reserve was created in 1979 to 4,000 square km and subsequently expanded to the current 6000, several "errors" have allowed the installation of wells within the reservation and does not seem that large companies are content with this.

The entry into the reserve made by the so-called Puente de Cuyabeno, where we all four wheels to get on a canoe that would be our means of transportation in the following days. Already on their way to Jammu Lodge, a cottage resort located in the so-called "untouchable zone" of the reserve, we saw the diversity of both flora and fauna that this area of \u200b\u200bthe Amazon rainforest.

Traveling to Jamu Lodge Cuyabeno

leaves

On the way stop to see the work of cutting ants

Squirrel monkey

Anaconda arborea

Green Ibis (Mesembrinidis cayennensis)

The King of mimicry, the Potoo

Woodpecker

oriole nest

Once installed in the rooms and regained some energy swinging in a hammock, we got back to the canoe toward the Laguna Grande, the most important system lagoon in the reserve, take a bath, watch the sunset and the end of the day searching for alligators.