We’re back at the Estación Biológica del Beni!
We’re back at the Estación Biológica del Beni (EBB)! Three months ago, we began our collaboration with the Puerto Belén community, and we are delighted to return and keep building these growing relationships.Together, we talked about plants, fungi, animals, songs, and the beautiful saraij’, the handmade cotton bags woven by women with remarkable skill and […]
Our team keeps growing!
We are thrilled to welcome our new master’s student, Júlia, to our team! She has just arrived in San Borja, and together we’ve already had the chance to visit two Tsimane’ communities, i.e. Puerto Belén and Arenales, where we carried out ethno-biological transects and interviews. These days, we’re preparing the logistics for our next journey […]
Taking our Tsimane’ language skills to the next level!
This week, our team continues its Tsimane’ language training at the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura, strengthening our ability to communicate and collaborate across cultures. For us, learning Tsimane’ is not just about communication, vocabulary and grammar. It’s about connecting more deeply with the ethnobiological knowledge and cultural practices of the Tsimane’ people. This knowledge […]
A workshop about change
In early September we organised a workshop about local perceptions of cultural and environmental change. More accurately put, we held two workshops in tandem: to organise more comfortable discussion spaces there was one workshop with the women of the village, and another with the men. It became very clear from these meetings that the Tsimane’ […]
Documenting Tsimane’ mushroom knowledge
No one has ever written about the relations the Tsimane’ have with the realm of fungi! We’re excited as we are now starting to document the Tsimane’ knowledge of mushrooms, a topic so far has been overlooked by the scientific community. Interestingly, only few Tsimane’ people seem to know the names of mushrooms or their […]
