Jan 18th, 2016 i join the team in Peru
Over the last 6 years I have overcome many obstacles in my life and overcame major health challenges which Dr. did not think it was possible. I choose to fight for a better life in 2012 and conquered mental and physical health problems. And my life just is in a place i never though would be possible especially my trip and year abroad doing something that I am passionate about. $3050 is the amount i need for the Peru portion of the journey for a 61 Day 60 nights in the Amazon. this is a chance of a lifetime and hope to have a wonderful portfolio of photos for landing a successful job. I need support with 18 days left and having had given up my place and belonging preparing for the trip im honoring this experience and hopefully receive a education of a lifetime. $7000 is what I am hoping to use and as ARC Amazon . This is my first time abroad.
https://instagram.com/ladykatphoenix
https://flickr.com/hausphoenixrising
I was invited out to film and photograph the Amazon in Peru with the Conservation team Wild Forests and Fauna and ARCAmazon. With a chance of a life to be part of a great project this is something that can not be passed up. After my 2 month stay in the Amazon I head to Europe to Backpack and work my way across every country working on a chance of a life photo exhibition series immersing myself into a cultural exchange.
Europe I will have a base of 800/mth to travel with as I find creative ways to make money as I travel. I will be working in exchange for food and places to stay and couch surfing.
Amazon will cost a little more as it is about $35 to cover 3 meals a day, fresh water, gasoline, and transportation. This is an off the grid expedenture.
Raising money to help procure the subjects for my first exhibition show.
This includes supplies and clothing airfare for around the world. Euro rail pass, camera equipment, passport, etc.
I leave in January all paperwork has been turned in and ready to go. Now just securing sponsors and donors to be producers of this Exhibition show.
2016 is about celebrating life and living in gratitude. It's about living my Seasons of Love as someone has been living with HIV for 6 years. This photo journey is about not taking life for granted and recognizing the beauty in every moment that there isnt any bad situations just lessons to learn.
Will you help be part of this cultural exchange and immersion and help celebrate life. this is not a vacation. I will be working my way across Europe and capturing a world I can't yet to begin to imagine or comprehend
Links to video what we do in Peru and pre planning list for your info below 56 days of the campaign to go if 1000 of the 1500 friends i have on facebook each help produce this art photo exhibition by contributing $7 we will have no problem reaching the goal. Money raised is helping with airfare, items needed listed below, eurorail, and covers the expenses in cures on a trip such of this. Will be gone for a year dealing with elements.
What are we doing in Peru and Info
Please check out the video on the campaign
Https://youtu.be/svBgbqgPo4c
Predeparture pack info
Https://drive.google.com/…/0B4gCzwGlAcqySHdndlZzTWNYa…/view…
Items needed where and why we have cost to the trip
*passport
*65-75L rucksack/backpack and small day pack 15-24L
*Quick drying long sleeve shirts for field (2-3) neutral colors to camouflage
*Quick drying long trousers for field (2-3) zip offs are popular neutral colors
*short sleeve comfortable thirty and vests (5-10) neutral colors
*shorts or cropped pants (2-3)
*underwear and socks plenty
*swimwear
*warm outfit eg sweatshirt heavy cotton trousers or jeans
*towel medium sized fast drying (2)
*sandals or flip flops
*light hiking walking boots
*high wellies/rubber boots
*walking stick
*rope
*lock
*rain coat or poncho ponchos preferred
*broad brimmed hat or cap
*bandana
*sleeping bag
*head torch and rechargeable batteries( 2)
*deet insect repellant
*Sunscreen spf25+ and sun glasses
Washbag and toiletries ecological antibacterial soap and shampoo ad well as ecological clothes washing soap
*ziplock bags and silicon satchets
*compass
*waterbottle, metal flask or camel bags
*first aid kit
*digital camera
>telescopic lens
>night vision
*field guides or notebooks to take notes
*wristwatch
*Binoculars
*earplugs
*Pocket knife
*following field guides
>neotropical rainforest mammals by Emmons and feel
>Mammals of the neotropics:the central neotropics
>Birds of Peru
>Reptiles and Amphiphians:an ecotourist guide
>Cusco Amazonico
>Reptile Biodiversity : standard methods for inventory
>Butterflies of South Amazonia
>A field guide to the families and general of woody plants of North west south America
>a neotropical companion
>travelers wildlife guides Peru
>Smithsonian atlas if the Amazon
Budgeting
So I get to go through Europe on an 800/month budget as i have that much that comes in every month plus what ever I make working across Europe. Im driving for Uber and Lyft to help supplement as well. $7000 raising pays for the airfare, Euro rail and the most expensive part of the trip amazon at $35/ day but covers food water training and everything it's not the flexible
In Jan I will be joining ARCAmazon and Wild Forest and Fauna in Peru and working with their conservation research team. I will also be hiring a guide to take me the entire length of the Amazon River down to Brazil. then I head to Ireland/England Europe to work my way through Every Country preparing for my first Photo/video Exhibition Show including India and Africa and hoping to end my trip with the great wall of China and the Forbidden Gardens. Morroco, mumbai, Genevea, are definitely on the list This is not a vacation but a chance to immerse myself in to cultural exchange learn for other photographers abroad and capture places in a chance of a life time trip. the goal is minimum $7000 for the year journey.
in January it will be 6 yrs since I became HIV+ and February will be a year since surgery and this trip is about Honoring my experience and capturing a year in my Seasons of Love.
Katerina Du Lac
Lady Katerina - Phoenix Rising
Katandi Media and Entertainment
#PeruEuroKat
#IAmKat
http://conservetheamazon.org
About my Peru Trip I will be joining the ARC Amazon Research and Conservation Team for 2 months before Taking a trip the length of the Amazon before heading to Europe.
The Las Piedras Amazon Center (LPAC) is our home in the rainforest, a rustic expedition-style camp on a 4,460 hectare (11,021 acre) reserve in the remote Las Piedras River watershed, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. The camp accommodates researchers, volunteers, student groups and expeditions in rustic comfort, with minimal impact to the surrounding forest ecosystem. ARCAmazon works with partner Amazon Centers throughout the Amazon rainforest.
#AmazonAcademy
#ConserveTheAmazon
#AmazonCenter
ARCAmazon is currently working to protect an important area within Madre de Dios called Las Piedras. Las Piedras is the longest tributary in the Madre de Dios Region and forms part of the Amazon-Andes Biodiversity Hotspot and an important area for its beautiful landscapes, rich fauna and flora, and fascinating native communities.
When our research teams began studying the Las Piedras River watershed they were blown away at the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Las Piedras is home to a number of remarkable communities, some indigenous to the region, some remote and unconnected with the outside world and others formed with the sole purpose of extracting the forest’s resources. The team was concerned to learn that this pristine area is under increasing pressure from the extraction of timber and the rapid conversion of forest into agriculture and pasture land. More so, that there is little to no private or government environmental policy enforcement in the area. For this reason, ARCAmazon has decided to pioneer a large conservation effort to begin dealing with the issues currently threatening Las Piedras.
The Fauna
While the area remains largely unstudied, we have already seen an extraordinarily large complement of wildlife species. The small area we have studied in the lower Las Piedras is home to over 40 medium to large-bodied mammals including cats: Jaguar, Ocelot, Margay, Puma and Jaguarundi; over 10 monkey species include Black spider monkey, Black-headed night monkey, Red howler monkey, Gray’s bald faced saki, and Saddle-backed tamarin; as well as many other enigmatic mammals such as the Short-eared dog, Giant armadillo, Giant anteater, Grison and Brazilian tapir. There is also an exciting assortment of over 500 bird species in the area, including some of the rarer species such as Psittacidae (Parrots), Cracidae (Guans), Harpia harpija (Harpy Eagle), Morphus guianensis (Crested Eagle), Conioptilon mcilhennyi (Black-faced Cotinga), Cnipodectes superrufus (Rufous Twistwing), Notharchus ordii (Brown-banded Puffbird), Conopias trivirgatus (Three-striped Flycatcher) and Sclerurus rufigularis (Short-billed Leaftosser)
The People
The headwaters of the Las Piedras begin in the Alto Purus National Park, home to groups of native indigenous tribes that live in voluntary isolation from the outside world. Our duty is to ensure we remain well away from these people for their safety, and ours, which is why we only work in the lower reaches of the Las Piedras River–days away from these important tribal lands. In the lower reaches of the Las Piedras River there are a number of interesting riverside communities that welcome visitors and the idea of responsible tourism. The communities of Lucerna and Palma Real form a river port and one of the oldest communities. They established during the time of the Rubber Barons.
There is a road between the community and the Interoceanic Highway which is beneficial to the Brazil nut harvesters who depend on good transport to maneuver their produce. The communities dedicate their lives to agriculture (corn, ginger, cacao, fruit), Brazil nut harvesting and timber. Further up river one finds the remote communities of Puerto Nuevo and Monte Salvado. Puerto Nuevo is an incredibly remote community, at two days upriver from Lucerna. This remoteness has advantages and disadvantages. While the community can lead a relatively undisturbed lifestyle and enjoy fluency in their native tongue (Yine) they are still at risk from disease, malnutrition, lack of access to health services and the odd surprise visit from the uncontacted tribes. Monte Salvado is the most remote settlement on the Las Piedras River and they are decedents of the Yine People. As implied by the name it is also the site of a North American Christian mission devoted to converting the uncontacted tribes to God. The strategy of the mission was to leave the tribes gifts of machetes and bananas. Not surprisingly, these days the community tends to be threatened by the uncontacted people at least once a year while the tribesmen gesture for more machetes and bananas.
The Challenge
Unfortunately, threats from the lower Las Piedras area are spreading upriver at a concerning rate and endangering the future of these unique people and wildlife. Between 2002 and 2004 the Peruvian government granted more than 7.5 million hectares of forest in concessions to logging companies. The middle and lower Las Piedras were primarily divided into Brazil Nut Concessions and Timber Concessions. Despite this attempt to zone the use of the forest, over-harvesting of timber continues to grow due to the high market price of species such as Mahogany, Cedar, and Iron Wood, and a total lack of government presence and law enforcement.
Recent loopholes in the law and generally low income from Brazil Nut harvesting has meant that thousands of Brazil Nut Concessions (hundreds of thousands of hectares) are now legally being logged, and hunted as a consequence, in the lower and mid Las Piedras. The areas surrounding Las Piedras are increasingly under threat from encroaching road networks and conversion of forests to agriculture. While it is technically illegal to convert forest in a concession many local people believe they will have a good chance of obtaining land ownership if they race to convert it to agriculture. As a result, the area cleared in the lower Las Piedras is growing at an alarming rate, with frontier extraction communities such as Lucerna continually felling and burning the land around them to make way for unsustainable agriculture. It is vital to work with these communities to find ways to increase the productivity of their forests and community lands, and so reduce their rate of forest conversion. There is currently little presence of private or government conservation-focused action in the region. ARCAmazon is one of the pioneers in this area and we are joining forces with other small initiatives to create a bigger impact.
Europe TripAs a Lyft and Uber driver I hear from my riders ways to get the most out of my trip. I will be working on farms and ranches, volunteering as tour guides and at hostels, and doing odd jobs to stretch my $800/mth budget as I work my way through every European Country and Looking at Africa and India and Asia as well learning about various cultures, trying new challenges to sustainable living, and learning from various photographers.
I am looking at hoping to get a job with National Geographic or another company from my diverse portfolio when trip is said and done.
https://flickr.com/hausphoenixrising
I was invited out to film and photograph the Amazon in Peru with the Conservation team Wild Forests and Fauna and ARCAmazon. With a chance of a life to be part of a great project this is something that can not be passed up. After my 2 month stay in the Amazon I head to Europe to Backpack and work my way across every country working on a chance of a life photo exhibition series immersing myself into a cultural exchange.
Europe I will have a base of 800/mth to travel with as I find creative ways to make money as I travel. I will be working in exchange for food and places to stay and couch surfing.
Amazon will cost a little more as it is about $35 to cover 3 meals a day, fresh water, gasoline, and transportation. This is an off the grid expedenture.
Raising money to help procure the subjects for my first exhibition show.
This includes supplies and clothing airfare for around the world. Euro rail pass, camera equipment, passport, etc.
I leave in January all paperwork has been turned in and ready to go. Now just securing sponsors and donors to be producers of this Exhibition show.
2016 is about celebrating life and living in gratitude. It's about living my Seasons of Love as someone has been living with HIV for 6 years. This photo journey is about not taking life for granted and recognizing the beauty in every moment that there isnt any bad situations just lessons to learn.
Will you help be part of this cultural exchange and immersion and help celebrate life. this is not a vacation. I will be working my way across Europe and capturing a world I can't yet to begin to imagine or comprehend
Links to video what we do in Peru and pre planning list for your info below 56 days of the campaign to go if 1000 of the 1500 friends i have on facebook each help produce this art photo exhibition by contributing $7 we will have no problem reaching the goal. Money raised is helping with airfare, items needed listed below, eurorail, and covers the expenses in cures on a trip such of this. Will be gone for a year dealing with elements.
What are we doing in Peru and Info
Please check out the video on the campaign
Https://youtu.be/svBgbqgPo4c
Predeparture pack info
Https://drive.google.com/…/0B4gCzwGlAcqySHdndlZzTWNYa…/view…
Items needed where and why we have cost to the trip
*passport
*65-75L rucksack/backpack and small day pack 15-24L
*Quick drying long sleeve shirts for field (2-3) neutral colors to camouflage
*Quick drying long trousers for field (2-3) zip offs are popular neutral colors
*short sleeve comfortable thirty and vests (5-10) neutral colors
*shorts or cropped pants (2-3)
*underwear and socks plenty
*swimwear
*warm outfit eg sweatshirt heavy cotton trousers or jeans
*towel medium sized fast drying (2)
*sandals or flip flops
*light hiking walking boots
*high wellies/rubber boots
*walking stick
*rope
*lock
*rain coat or poncho ponchos preferred
*broad brimmed hat or cap
*bandana
*sleeping bag
*head torch and rechargeable batteries( 2)
*deet insect repellant
*Sunscreen spf25+ and sun glasses
Washbag and toiletries ecological antibacterial soap and shampoo ad well as ecological clothes washing soap
*ziplock bags and silicon satchets
*compass
*waterbottle, metal flask or camel bags
*first aid kit
*digital camera
>telescopic lens
>night vision
*field guides or notebooks to take notes
*wristwatch
*Binoculars
*earplugs
*Pocket knife
*following field guides
>neotropical rainforest mammals by Emmons and feel
>Mammals of the neotropics:the central neotropics
>Birds of Peru
>Reptiles and Amphiphians:an ecotourist guide
>Cusco Amazonico
>Reptile Biodiversity : standard methods for inventory
>Butterflies of South Amazonia
>A field guide to the families and general of woody plants of North west south America
>a neotropical companion
>travelers wildlife guides Peru
>Smithsonian atlas if the Amazon
Budgeting
So I get to go through Europe on an 800/month budget as i have that much that comes in every month plus what ever I make working across Europe. Im driving for Uber and Lyft to help supplement as well. $7000 raising pays for the airfare, Euro rail and the most expensive part of the trip amazon at $35/ day but covers food water training and everything it's not the flexible
In Jan I will be joining ARCAmazon and Wild Forest and Fauna in Peru and working with their conservation research team. I will also be hiring a guide to take me the entire length of the Amazon River down to Brazil. then I head to Ireland/England Europe to work my way through Every Country preparing for my first Photo/video Exhibition Show including India and Africa and hoping to end my trip with the great wall of China and the Forbidden Gardens. Morroco, mumbai, Genevea, are definitely on the list This is not a vacation but a chance to immerse myself in to cultural exchange learn for other photographers abroad and capture places in a chance of a life time trip. the goal is minimum $7000 for the year journey.
in January it will be 6 yrs since I became HIV+ and February will be a year since surgery and this trip is about Honoring my experience and capturing a year in my Seasons of Love.
Katerina Du Lac
Lady Katerina - Phoenix Rising
Katandi Media and Entertainment
#PeruEuroKat
#IAmKat
http://conservetheamazon.org
About my Peru Trip I will be joining the ARC Amazon Research and Conservation Team for 2 months before Taking a trip the length of the Amazon before heading to Europe.
The Las Piedras Amazon Center (LPAC) is our home in the rainforest, a rustic expedition-style camp on a 4,460 hectare (11,021 acre) reserve in the remote Las Piedras River watershed, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. The camp accommodates researchers, volunteers, student groups and expeditions in rustic comfort, with minimal impact to the surrounding forest ecosystem. ARCAmazon works with partner Amazon Centers throughout the Amazon rainforest.
#AmazonAcademy
#ConserveTheAmazon
#AmazonCenter
ARCAmazon is currently working to protect an important area within Madre de Dios called Las Piedras. Las Piedras is the longest tributary in the Madre de Dios Region and forms part of the Amazon-Andes Biodiversity Hotspot and an important area for its beautiful landscapes, rich fauna and flora, and fascinating native communities.
When our research teams began studying the Las Piedras River watershed they were blown away at the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Las Piedras is home to a number of remarkable communities, some indigenous to the region, some remote and unconnected with the outside world and others formed with the sole purpose of extracting the forest’s resources. The team was concerned to learn that this pristine area is under increasing pressure from the extraction of timber and the rapid conversion of forest into agriculture and pasture land. More so, that there is little to no private or government environmental policy enforcement in the area. For this reason, ARCAmazon has decided to pioneer a large conservation effort to begin dealing with the issues currently threatening Las Piedras.
The Fauna
While the area remains largely unstudied, we have already seen an extraordinarily large complement of wildlife species. The small area we have studied in the lower Las Piedras is home to over 40 medium to large-bodied mammals including cats: Jaguar, Ocelot, Margay, Puma and Jaguarundi; over 10 monkey species include Black spider monkey, Black-headed night monkey, Red howler monkey, Gray’s bald faced saki, and Saddle-backed tamarin; as well as many other enigmatic mammals such as the Short-eared dog, Giant armadillo, Giant anteater, Grison and Brazilian tapir. There is also an exciting assortment of over 500 bird species in the area, including some of the rarer species such as Psittacidae (Parrots), Cracidae (Guans), Harpia harpija (Harpy Eagle), Morphus guianensis (Crested Eagle), Conioptilon mcilhennyi (Black-faced Cotinga), Cnipodectes superrufus (Rufous Twistwing), Notharchus ordii (Brown-banded Puffbird), Conopias trivirgatus (Three-striped Flycatcher) and Sclerurus rufigularis (Short-billed Leaftosser)
The People
The headwaters of the Las Piedras begin in the Alto Purus National Park, home to groups of native indigenous tribes that live in voluntary isolation from the outside world. Our duty is to ensure we remain well away from these people for their safety, and ours, which is why we only work in the lower reaches of the Las Piedras River–days away from these important tribal lands. In the lower reaches of the Las Piedras River there are a number of interesting riverside communities that welcome visitors and the idea of responsible tourism. The communities of Lucerna and Palma Real form a river port and one of the oldest communities. They established during the time of the Rubber Barons.
There is a road between the community and the Interoceanic Highway which is beneficial to the Brazil nut harvesters who depend on good transport to maneuver their produce. The communities dedicate their lives to agriculture (corn, ginger, cacao, fruit), Brazil nut harvesting and timber. Further up river one finds the remote communities of Puerto Nuevo and Monte Salvado. Puerto Nuevo is an incredibly remote community, at two days upriver from Lucerna. This remoteness has advantages and disadvantages. While the community can lead a relatively undisturbed lifestyle and enjoy fluency in their native tongue (Yine) they are still at risk from disease, malnutrition, lack of access to health services and the odd surprise visit from the uncontacted tribes. Monte Salvado is the most remote settlement on the Las Piedras River and they are decedents of the Yine People. As implied by the name it is also the site of a North American Christian mission devoted to converting the uncontacted tribes to God. The strategy of the mission was to leave the tribes gifts of machetes and bananas. Not surprisingly, these days the community tends to be threatened by the uncontacted people at least once a year while the tribesmen gesture for more machetes and bananas.
The Challenge
Unfortunately, threats from the lower Las Piedras area are spreading upriver at a concerning rate and endangering the future of these unique people and wildlife. Between 2002 and 2004 the Peruvian government granted more than 7.5 million hectares of forest in concessions to logging companies. The middle and lower Las Piedras were primarily divided into Brazil Nut Concessions and Timber Concessions. Despite this attempt to zone the use of the forest, over-harvesting of timber continues to grow due to the high market price of species such as Mahogany, Cedar, and Iron Wood, and a total lack of government presence and law enforcement.
Recent loopholes in the law and generally low income from Brazil Nut harvesting has meant that thousands of Brazil Nut Concessions (hundreds of thousands of hectares) are now legally being logged, and hunted as a consequence, in the lower and mid Las Piedras. The areas surrounding Las Piedras are increasingly under threat from encroaching road networks and conversion of forests to agriculture. While it is technically illegal to convert forest in a concession many local people believe they will have a good chance of obtaining land ownership if they race to convert it to agriculture. As a result, the area cleared in the lower Las Piedras is growing at an alarming rate, with frontier extraction communities such as Lucerna continually felling and burning the land around them to make way for unsustainable agriculture. It is vital to work with these communities to find ways to increase the productivity of their forests and community lands, and so reduce their rate of forest conversion. There is currently little presence of private or government conservation-focused action in the region. ARCAmazon is one of the pioneers in this area and we are joining forces with other small initiatives to create a bigger impact.
Europe TripAs a Lyft and Uber driver I hear from my riders ways to get the most out of my trip. I will be working on farms and ranches, volunteering as tour guides and at hostels, and doing odd jobs to stretch my $800/mth budget as I work my way through every European Country and Looking at Africa and India and Asia as well learning about various cultures, trying new challenges to sustainable living, and learning from various photographers.
I am looking at hoping to get a job with National Geographic or another company from my diverse portfolio when trip is said and done.
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