A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps
Forty-four camera traps have recorded various species in El Tuparro National Natural Park in Colombia’s Orinoco region, from jaguars and pumas, to deer, tapirs and peccaries, reflecting the park’s healthy ecosystems.
A separate survey also recorded a Guianan white-eared opossum (Didelphis imperfecta), a species never before recorded in Colombia.
The protected area has just turned 40 years old, and although it represents a rare conservation success story, rangers and researchers say it continues to face pressures from fires, sport and commercial fishing, and hunting.
Compounding the problem is the growing human presence in and around the park, as the economic and political crises in neighboring Venezuela drives an influx of people across the border in search of food.
Mulberry Films, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles, Calif., whose managing director is Indian American Rashaana Shah, has acquired multiple bestselling books for film and television adaption.
Shah said in a statement: âWe want to dwell in true stories of real heroes that resonate with global audiences.â
One of their projects, âNanda Devi,â is a film on the Uttarakhand glacier tragedy and is based on âSpies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs,â authored by legendary Indian mountaineer M.S. Kohli, who conquered Mount Everest.
âNanda Deviâ was recently in the headlines because of the tragic glacier burst in Uttarakhand, which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people.Â
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LA-based Mulberry Films has acquired the rights to multiple bestselling books for film and television adaption. Mulberry’s project
Nanda
Devi has recently been in the headlines because of the tragic glacier burst in Uttarakhand.
In 1965, the United States and India collaborated in an attempt to install a listening device at 25,000 feet on the mountain Nanda Devi to monitor the nearby Chinese nuclear test site. The listening device was powered by highly radioactive plutonium, and was lost during the expedition. It has been speculated that it may be the cause of the recent glacier burst in Uttarakhand.