“Thirty seconds of video elapse and you see a man preparing his backpack with a luggage typical of a mountain climber: helmet, ropes and girdles. They are all the necessary instruments to orchestrate a climb to a fig tree of more than eight meters. At the top of the tree, a group of scarlet macaws await him.
The man is Mario Jiménez, leader of the field team of the Macaw Recovery Network, in Punta Islita, Guanacaste, and monitoring the development of the scarlet macaws is one of his daily tasks at the site.
The video, “A day in the life of Mario”, was uploaded by the organization to the YouTube platform with the intention of keeping the world informed about the condition of the macaws, after they had to close the facilities due to the global emergency of COVID-19.
According to the Relations Manager of the Macaw Recovery Network, Sady González, the initiative aims to motivate the arrival of volunteers to the project after the pandemic, to maintain contact with the community and, consequently, to encourage donations that allow the continuity of the network.” (continues)
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