The lungs of the world
Peruvian teacher Harry Hildebrand takes two hundred Lima high school students into the Amazon rainforest every year. He has been doing it for 20 years, stewarding eight-day trips one after another - that is, until the coronavirus pandemic reached the Andes and caused a shutdown. The teenagers travel ten hours down river from the nearest jungle town, but not so far that they get too close to the non-contact communities downstream, where the animals are wary of hunters.
“We sort of plonk in the middle where the kids can have this amazing contact with nature. As a biology teacher, I can talk about coevolutionary relationships and adaptations, but surrounded by howler monkeys and macaws and poison dart frogs, they can feel for
