Day: August 13, 2010

As a canopy biologist, I am intrigued by the nature of scaffolding in other countries which appears slightly akin to scaling trees and dangling on branches. Here at the Bahir Dar Airport, the traditional Ethiopian tree-branch scaffold spanned upwards of three stories, with a team of young boys but mainly women working atop this rickety […]

We all arrived, except for one person late by one day, one suitcase lost in Washington DC, and several pairs of underwear pinched from the hotel laundry in Adis. Not bad, considering that we are a dozen passionate conservation biologists, on a mission to survey the bugs of the church forests in Ethiopia (photo is […]