From a plane, Daniel noticed this almost perfectly round hole in the ground. Inside, huge trees were thriving – a lush mix of palms, broad-leaved trees and climbers – like a ‘full-blown rainforest in a bowl’.
Chiribiquete National Park boasts an exceptional diversity of native wildlife but it is threatened by deforestation and mercury pollution from gold mining. Thanks to public and political mobilisation, the park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2018, becoming Colombia’s largest protected area.
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Daniel has a master's in biology and has always been interested in nature. He has taken two long trips by bicycle: one from the North Cape in Norway to Cape Town, South Africa, and one from the southern tip of South America to Quito in Ecuador. For five years he lived in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, conducting fieldwork for lion research. He now works for the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
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