Scientist Erika Cuellar has championed the Gran Chaco, South Americas second largest wilderness after the Amazon. She’s educating its inhabitants on how to preserve their expansive home.
The woman saving South America’s 2nd wilderness
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King of the Andes
In the Andes of Peru the blood festival is a custom, which dates back decades, perhaps even centuries. More than a bullfight, the centerpiece of this festival is the battle between a bull and a condor.
Evo re-elected?
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales is cleared for a third re-election in 2014. Can anyone beat him?
Haute cuisine in – wait for it – Bolivia!
Dan Collyns takes us to the trendiest new restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, the brainchild of top Danish chef and Noma founder, Claus Meyer. Could it be the vanguard of a gastronomic revolution in the land-locked country.
Cocaine: History between the Lines
Dan Collyns worked as the Peru producer on this feature-length History Channel documentary about the cocaine trade. Toby Barraud of NFGTV hired Dan to get the inside track on the drugs war at source.
The Art of Truth
For CCTV Americas Now, Dan Collyns takes us to Peru, where four non-actors have come together linked only by the dramatic events that shaped their early lives. In the 1980s and 1990s an internal conflict raged in Peru between communist gorillas and the state. Hyper inflation and bad governing also affected the country. The play is a way for the actors to express how they were affected during these events.
Mapping the Amazon rainforest like never before
We hope this is how scientists can impact on climate change policy.
Communing with the deities of Chavin de Huantar
One of Peru’s most fascinating ancient sites, Chavin de Huantar, holds secrets witnessed by just a few thousand visitors a year.
A sweet alternative
From cocaine to chocolate. Can cocoa really be a substitute for the leaf that makes cocaine?
The guardian; Havana bienal; Start me up Chile
Dan Collyns reports for CCTV’s Americas Now program regarding the discovery of massive marine fossils in the Peruvian desert.