Six Animals Set Free by the Arroyo de los Guardianes
By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros·Reviewed by Alejandro Rigatuso
This morning, near the Arroyo de los Guardianes, six animals returned to the wild. The release was coordinated by Alberto alongside the EPA, the Policía, and the Armada Nacional — eight people in all, a mix of the Loros' green uniforms and military camouflage, united beneath the dense canopy of the forest by a single shared purpose. Four tamarins, one nine-banded armadillo, and one rabbit stepped out of their transport crates and disappeared into the damp leaf litter and tangled trees of the sector.
The photographs say everything: the armadillo, its shell catching what little light filtered through the branches, wasted no time rooting through fallen debris in search of whatever the earth had to offer. One of the tamarins — more curious than cautious — was already making its way toward the feeding station the field team had stocked with papaya and banana, a small grace to ease the first days of adjustment.
No one needed to explain anything to the Dasypus novemcinctus. The moment it touched ground, the forest floor received it as though it had always belonged there.
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.
