COOPER, MURRAY / VILLEGAS JIMÉNEZ, BENJAMIN / GOMEZ, JOSELYN
¡El deslumbramiento de Murray Cooper con el Casanare es sencillamente contagioso! Ocurre cuando él, fotógrafo autor de este libro, creyendo haber visto todo lo que había que ver de la naturaleza colombiana, pisa por primera vez esta parte del país, enclavada en plena Orinoquia, y se rinde ante sus suelos y sus ríos, sus gentes y su fauna. Una región de sabanas tropicales inundables, donde abundan chigüiros, osos hormigueros, anacondas, caimanes solo por mencionar algunos y, por supuesto, aves, muchas aves, aves espectaculares e impensadas, de las cuales aquí se nos da prueba. Pero esta maravillosa ecología enfrenta también amenazadas. De ahí que sea imperativo conciliar desarrollo y conservación. La belleza aquí plasmada debe movernos a ello. ¡contagiémonos también de este empeño!
No matter how many times you visit it, Colombia - the repository par excellence of a magnanimous biodiversity - has the powerful charm of giving us new surprises with each visit.
This book is dedicated to the birds of Casanare one of the departments of our Eastern Plains, where almost four hundred species of birds have been recorded historically, most of them associated with flooded savannas. Such is the importance of the avifauna present in these ecosystems. The floodable savannas, which need the scenic beauty of the area, are also water regulators, exporters of nutrients and reservoirs of diversity. This privileged region is full of chigüiros, anteaters, anacondas, alligators to mention a few and, of course, birds, spectacular and unthinkable birds, of which the two hundred fresh and spontaneous images that this book offers testify.
Murray Cooper's dazzle with the Casanare is simply contagious!
It occurs when he, the photographer and author of this book, believing he had seen everything there was to see in Colombian nature, set foot again in this region, nestled in the Orinoquia, and surrendered to its landscapes, its people and its fauna.
But this wonderful ecology also faces threats. Hence, it is imperative to reconcile development and conservation in its management. The beauty embodied here should move us to it. Let's also get this endeavor!
