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"From the top of the great pyramid of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in the
southern Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, you can see all the way to Guatemala. The
jungle stretches out infinitely in every direction, an ocean of green
punctuated only by the stepped pyramid peaks of two other Maya temples.
When I was there in March, there were hardly any other visitors. Calakmul was
once one of the largest and most powerful cities of the Maya world, but now it
stands in ruins, hours from the nearest urban center and enveloped by the
Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, one of the biggest swaths of unbroken tropical
forest in the Americas.
It was early evening, and the black howler monkeys were waking up. From under
the forest canopy came the guttural, trash-compactor roar of the loudest land
animal in the world, one of many endangered species that live here, along with
pumas, toucans, spider monkeys and coati-mundis. Perhaps most crucially, the
jungle of Calakmul is home to the highest concentration of jaguars in Mexico."
Via
Future Crunch issue 190:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
