La manga del pueblo, under surveillance

There are entrances to the reserve that appear on no map as marked trails — they are paths that time and the passage of people drew without permission. La manga del pueblo is one of those. José knows it well, and that is why he included it in today's monitoring round: come, look, confirm. On the thick-trunked tree that marks this access point, the green sign of the Fundación Loros still stood in its place, firm, announcing that this is a protected area and that hunting, burning, and logging have no place here. Nothing out of the ordinary. No trace of anything to raise an alarm. Sometimes that — the calm, the order, the sign untouched — is exactly the news. José continued on his way. The point was recorded at coordinates 10.426319, -75.245452, like a new pin in the memory of the reserve.