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Kendall, Sarita
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Manatee trees: culture and conservation in Amazonia.
Bogotá, Fundación Natutama, 174 pp. Illus.
–ABSTRACT: This is the story of a community-based program to understand and protect the Amazonian manatee. It shows how working with an indigenous community to revive manatee stories and culture made it possible to stop manatee hunting in the Puerto Nariño area of the Colombian Amazon. An orphaned calf, Airuwe, was raised and released into the wild, while Ticuna fishermen and former hunters followed the manatees, discovering their seasonal habitats and interpreting their life under the water. Regular monitoring of the lakes and rivers resulted in over 5000 sightings in 16 years, establishing detailed migration patterns. Ticuna elders helped us to see the manatee from within their culture, giving us a different perspective on the relationship between people and animals. Out of this developed a long-term conservation and education program focused on the Natutama Interpretation Centre, run by Ticuna educators and guides.
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Colombia
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Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
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Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
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Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
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