Reforestation helps Animals
Reforestation helps
endangered animals. Trees provide shelter from weather and predators. Trees produce fruits that feed animals. The
Colombian llanos or plains are home to a large variety of creatures, including mammals, birds, reptiles and fish.
The Amazonia Reforestation vision includes protecting the habitat of those species.
One
interesting animal in the Rio El Vita is the giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), endangered
due to the value of its fur. The males can be 6 feet in length. It is called the lobo del rio
or river wolf, because it feeds on catfish, perch, piranha (piraña), crabs and small caimans
and anacondas.
Vichada has deer (venados), tapirs (dantas), the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca),
sloths (perezosos), wild boars (cafuches), pecarries (zainos), jaguars,
long tailed monkeys (micos), armadillos, foxes (zorros), pink dolphins (delfines rosados),
manatees, and capybaras (chigüiros).
Vichada
is a bird watchers paradise. Species include toucans (tucánes), loros or parrots, guacamayas or macaws,
humming birds (colibríes), curassows (paujiles), moor hens (gallinetas), and the vultures
of the llanos.
Among the
many amazing and exotic creatures in the Orinoco basin is the fresh water pink dolphin (Inia geoffrensis). It
eats small fish, crustaceans and zoo plankton.
For 4 months
of the year the fishing is spectacular in the tributaries of the Orinoco. Fly in to visit your trees and go sports fishing
on the Rio el Vita.