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*sigh*.

O.k., das versteht jetzt wahrscheinlich niemand :).

Just one of those days...

...where I should never had got out of bed.

And, to give this post at least some sense, here are two blogs I like:
Crazy architecture and Hamster cages.
Want to build another hamster enclosure now...am looking for another dwarf by the way, monster died just before I left for Ecuador.

Brrrrr....

Heiko loves water in any condition of aggregation...and afterwards shakes it off right beside me.

I love Micke !

my new desk :)

Testing uploads...

I´ve been uploading my pictures to Facebook, but it downsizes them to the point of looking crappy. I usually use 100o Pxls width, what´s the point of lugging around a DSLR if you can only look at stamp sized-photos? So, I want to try blogger, also for the people who´re not using Facebook.
It is just so annoying and time-consuming, that Blogger doesn´t have the option of multiple uploads (5 pict. max), so it might take a while till I find a way to get around it or doing it manually.
(Click on the photos for better quality.)

Angry, Yasuni, Niebel

On my last week in Ecuador I went to a Lodge in the Rainforest, run by the local Sani on the border of Yasuni National Park.

It is one of the most amazing places, maybe the most amazing place, I have ever seen.
We went there by boat - seeing Oil production sites, destroying the forest, all along the way.

Back home I started reading about this paradise and am both saddened and enraged by the role the german government, represented by our "development minister" Niebel (FDP- what else?!) plays.
Here´s an article (in german). (There are more on Spiegel online etc.)

"This is the chance of a lifetime: a unique opportunity to preserve the moths that hover over a tapir´s eye just long enough to drink from its tear duct, or the poison-dart frogs that piggyback their recently hatched tadpoles from the forest floor uo to the small pools that form in bromeliads high in the canopy. Let´s hope the world takes it." (BBC Wildlife, David Herasimtschuk, Oct 2011)
Well, I guess Germany won´t.

Thanks to farsighted people like Mr. Niebel my Niece and Nephew won´t be able to discover places like Yasuni once they´re my age.
But I guess we cannot really afford to spend 40 mil dollars on something as ridiculous as protecting one of the worlds most biodeverse places on earth (and it´s people!), the money is much better spent on saving another bank, and another one....and of course we have garanties there that the money is well spent.
Tell the ecuadorians to cut down the forest, once they replant it they´ll get money for CO2 savings or whatever ...

Link to Yasuni-itt: http://yasuni-itt.gob.ec/

Juvenile Condor

Amazing birds!
This is a wild juvenile, who came to visit the captive Condors at Hacienda Zula a couple of times - she was very inquisitive.