Behind the Shiringa (Hevea brasiliensis) no less than the rubber tree plant is hidden. He had at the beginning of the 20th Century, particularly in Brazil, but also here in Peru (without it the city of Iquitos in its present dimensions would be unthinkable) a never triggered experienced rubber boom. The discovery of the possibility of producing synthetic rubber and the successful plantation farming in Southeast Asia, ebbed, the rubber production in South America, and thus the importance of Shiringa sharply. Today the world market price of natural rubber has risen again to the point that an economic use of Shringa especially for the rural poor here in America is interesting again.
My AIDER Alejandro staff has devoted to this topic and initiates Shiringa currently a project in two indigenous communities and several rural settlements on the Rio San Alejandro, about 120 kilometers from Pucallpa away. Alejandro I was booked for 5 days in the area of the project. The river is not the way, named after him.
On Thursday morning we started the clock by 4. We drove by car to San Alejandro and increasing by a PekePeke that Alejandro had already prepared the day before the departure. I was to find the next day with Joel Alejandro, a Peruvian AIDER interns and Rember, a Shiringa specialists from the lower Ucayali spend. Around noon we arrived in Sinchi Roca, a community of Cacataibo Cashibo Indians on. I quickly realized that Alejandro had organized the trip very well (huch. .. this is very untypical AIDER). On a gas stove, we were conjured up by a villager a delicious pasta dish. We pitched our camp and left tackle the first day of quiet. In the afternoon, the sky opened its doors. The rainy season has now really arrived. It rained the next night and almost the entire Friday. The river rose in this period by 3 meters. That was something I had never seen before and was impressed. Within just one day disappeared a huge island and the initially clear river turned into a brown raging flood. Once again confirmed that water is a Naturhewalt is destructive, of which one must necessarily preserve respect.
necessity, we spent so on Friday in dry our sleeping hut in the village. I was quite right, because I had not caught my first cold in Pucallpa in Peru, probably because I absolutely had to test my new fan at level 3 all night.
went on Saturday then release the planned work. Our team went with coxswain, his wife and an old villager in a tributary in order to collect GPS data on the locations of the rubber trees. The forest was still beautiful. Two wild otter crossed our way and colorful birds escaped our Peke chugging engine. The day remains for me as a beautiful jungle adventure, fortunately with little rain, in memory.
On Sunday we held an information session for the villagers. As "bait," we had brought plenty of biscuits and drinks, so that the community center was packed. Then we boarded our boat and headed upriver to Puerto Nuevo, another community that will participate in the project. We had very little time. After some discussions with the villagers and one night we went back again on Monday morning direction Pucallpa.
I liked the days at the Rio San Alejandro is good. Even though I also find more of a standing observer, was a real employee, I can imagine the next trip to the 15th February to support.
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