By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
There are entrances to the reserve that appear on no map as marked trails — they are paths that time and the passage of people drew without permission. La manga del pueblo is one of those. José knows it well, and that is why he included it in today's monitoring round: come, look, confirm.
On the thick-trunked tree that marks this access point, the green sign of the Fundación Loros still stood in its place, firm, announcing that this is a protected area and that hunting, burning, and logging have no place here. Nothing out of the ordinary. No trace of anything to raise an alarm. Sometimes that — the calm, the order, the sign untouched — is exactly the news.
José continued on his way. The point was recorded at coordinates 10.426319, -75.245452, like a new pin in the memory of the reserve.
About the author
Alejandro Rigatuso · Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
Alejandro Rigatuso arrived at Fundación Loros after years as Vice President of Growth Marketing at Toptal, bringing with him an unconventional perspective: he knows an animal is well by its eyes, "bright, wide open." Lorenzo, the first parrot released, recaptured several times and always set free to fly again, marked him forever. At dusk, around five-thirty, you'll find him at the Mirador de las Ciénagas or wandering around Cerro El Peligro, envisioning observation towers and hundreds of native parrots soaring over a reserve that an entire community calls their own.
