ENG: Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Estación Biológica Santiago de Chirca (FB) in Sud Yungas province of La Paz department. I was invited by botanist and plant ecologist Silvia Gallegos, who leads the biological station and is responsible for the Yungas Restauration Project of the National Herbarium of La Paz and the Martin-Luther-University […]
CfP Music-Making-Materials Conference
ENG: Over the last months violin maker and expert in species conservation and sustainability in musical instrument making Silke Lichtenberg (Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Applied Sciences Cologne) and I were working together to organize our international online conference Music-Making-Materials: Natural Resource Use and Sustainability in Musical […]
Preliminary Checklist of Musical Bamboos
ENG: The National Herbarium of La Paz supports a preliminary checklist of musical bamboos of highland and lowland Bolivia. The reason for publishing the letter and checklist is related to conservation efforts and the Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) project of Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Museo de Historia Natural Noell Kempf Mercado and Fundación Amigos […]
New Publication in Ecomusicology Review
ENG: Thanks to Aaron Allen for supporting the publication of a current research report with an interactive ArcGIS Story Map. The research report can be accessed through the Ecomusicology Review homepage. ESP: Gracias a Aaron Allen por apoyar la publicación de un actual informe de investigación con un ArcGIS Story Map interactivo. Pueden revisar el […]
Collaboration with Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA
ENG: The Bolivian NGO Asociación Boliviana para la Investigación y Conservación de Ecosistemas Andino Amazónicos (Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA) was founded in 2011 with the aim of contributing to a sustainable management of Andean Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity. After a fruitful dialogue and exchange with the coordinator of the Science and Technology Program Daniel Larrea and other ACEAA […]
Donation of Musical Bamboos to National Herbarium of La Paz
ENG: The National Herbarium of La Paz has recently created a new collection of plant species with cultural and social use. I am happy to contribute to this new collection with a donation of a set of musical bamboo tubes, which I collected during my fieldwork among highland flute makers and lowland bamboo collectors. I […]
Vicente Ojeda and the Moseñada of the Huari Ponchos
ENG: Jesika and I had the honor to accompany Walateño musiñu specialist and musician Ignacio Quispe to the Altiplano community of Kolluhuma-Belén in Aroma province, where he met again after eleven years his good friend and musiñu musician Vicente Ojeda. Don Ignacio invited us to document his interview with Don Vicente, one of the initiators of famous Moseñada group called Huari […]
Proposal Musical Bamboos and KBAs Bolivia
ENG: On February 28th I participated at the final KBA-Bolivia meeting at the Institute of Ecology of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA) in La Paz. Several contributors and partner institutions have been present to discuss the final phase of the KBA-Bolivia project, which aims at updating the key biodiversity areas for Bolivia. I had the […]
Juan Granier Street in the 2020s: Coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath
ENG: The last time I visited the Walateño flute makers of Juan Granier Street at the Garita de Lima in La Paz city was back in 2017. I visited urban-based flute makers at their street stands (ay. qhatu) and conversed with them about musical bamboos and the future of their flute making activities. Last week, I came back and was […]
Visiting the National Herbarium of La Paz
ENG: After six years I returned to the National Herbarium of La Paz (LPB) in order to meet some old and new friends, and supporters of my project. In the meanwhile, the National Herbarium of La Paz inaugurated new facilities with more space for collections, meeting rooms, and project working spaces. It was so lovely […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 