ML141267
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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: John Terborgh. Timecode In: 00:00:15. Timecode out: 00:23:41. Notes: Manu National Park; Ecological threats. Subject 2: Rose-fronted Parakeet (Pyrrhura roseifrons). Timecode In: 00:23:41. Timecode out: 00:23:46. Notes: Time of Day: 1700. Subject 3: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Evening lake ambi. Timecode In: 00:41:10. Timecode out: 00:52:59. Notes: Time of Day: 1755. Subject 4: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Dawn chorus. Timecode In: 01:06:52. Timecode out: 01:31:31. Notes: Time of Day: 0500; Recorded 21 October, 1999. Subject 5: (Alouatta). Timecode In: 01:35:47. Timecode out: 01:39:13. Notes: Time of Day: 0530; Recorded 21 October, 1999. Subject 6: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Rainforest ambi. Timecode In: 01:39:13. Timecode out: 01:40:32. Notes: Time of Day: 0535; Recorded 21 October, 1999. Habitat: Rainforest, Lake. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH50 Hypercardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax Preamp into Sony TCD7. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS PERU LOG DAT #3 NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Peru Log of DAT #: 3 Date: 1999 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good ID#1 [Terborgh interview continued] 0:00:15 - 0:00:47 JN:We¿re talking to Dr. John Terborgh in the Jungle¿ But we want to make sure DR. Terborgh that it¿s okay to use this on the air, print, website, etc. JT: I agree to all of the above¿ 0:00:47 - 0:02:10 JN: Well, I want to talk about threats to the park and I just generally speaking, there are a number of threats you look for at any park, and one of them is invasive species, I gather there¿s only one that you¿ve seen here yet. Which one¿s that¿ JT: There¿re not a great many here and it¿s one of the few places on earth where that can be said. The very first one I noticed arrived in 1978, and that was africanized honeybees. Honeybees are from the old world, they don¿t belong here in the western hemisphere buy they have invaded very successfully, and we saw our first Africanized bees in 1978. JN: I hope you noticed this in a painless way. JT: Oh yes. JN: They came around selling magazines or something. So that¿s not something that is impending around here. Manu is unique in that respect. JT: Undisturbed natural communities tend to be extremely resistant to invaders and that¿s true in North America as well as down here. The last little bits of virgin forest that we have have extremely few non-native plants in them, but disturbed places are just full of them, so that¿s another mystery for the ecologists to solve, we don¿t understand completely why that¿s so. 0:02:10 - 0:03:27 JN: And there hasn¿t been much bush-meat hunting in Manu, there has been in other parts of the Amazon, and there has been around the world, why not here? Are you worried? JT: I¿m not really worried right now because the bush-meat market in this part of the world is in Puerto Maldonado, it¿s a long way away from here, the pressure isn¿t great. Much of the Amazon has been drained of its animal life though by commerical market hunting and that¿s true in essentially all Amazonian countries, including most of the rest of Peru. What has saved Manu and the reason why Manu is as wonderful as it is, is a very unexpected one, is the river is occupied by what would be regarded as dangerous wild indians, and the fear people had coming in here for any purpose at all is what preserved it in its intact state. And so fortunately the park was created before this myth wore off, and we have a very exceptional piece of untrampled nature. 0:03:27 - 0:04:45 JN: I think it might be that another reason why you have so much richness in terms of wildlife is that the indigenous populations were driven into the corners of the park or killed off or given diseases that did the same thing, beginning... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 14 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 14 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 14 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman