Besides conducting a survey on impacts from and perceptions of the palizada, Jorge is documenting its materials effects on the Tsimane’ lives and livelihoods, using a flying camera for that purpose. So far, Jorge has captured several striking landscape features, from banana fields flooded for two years (in the picture), to the lagoons left behind when the river meanders get strangled, to the collapsing banks of the Maniqui river, where vegetation hangs from a thread before fall down to the water course. Beyond capturing videos and photos for documenting the process of logjam formation and its impacts, Jorge’s goal is to map the current extent and state of the logjam, to contribute to understand its spatio-temporal dynamics, and how it may behave in the coming years.
