21.11.2024 - Indoor Meeting : Ten Years in Bolivia

​Speaker: Nick Acheson
Reporter: Sue Gale

Nick Acheson is an old friend of WVBS, and we know we can rely on him to give an entertaining talk that is crammed full of information. As usual we were not disappointed, and we all know an awful lot more about Bolivia than we did before! Nick went to Bolivia in 1997, intending to stay for a few months but effectively stayed for 10 years. He knew nothing about the
country before he went but found it to be at the meeting point of 4 out of the 5 major regions of South America, meaning that it offered a wide variety of habitats and therefore also of species. To the East of the country the land is low-lying but even here there are differences, with woodlands and savannahs, whereas to the West are the Andes, with their valleys and at the furthest west the high altiplano. Nick lived in Santa Cruz, pretty much right in the middle.

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