María José and the Thirst of B87

On a Tuesday in April, at the farm La Ciénaga, María José — wife of one of the workers — came across an unexpected visitor: lora B87, alone, perched, and visibly parched. She was no biologist, no ranger, but something in the animal's behavior was enough for her to understand what it needed. She offered it water. The record reached the Fundación through Luis, from the organization Horses Cartagena, who received the video firsthand and shared it with the team. It isn't always the experts who make the most valuable discoveries — sometimes it is the attentive gaze of someone who lives close to the forest, who knows its silences and its signals. B87 appeared alone on this occasion, with no other company than that of a kind-hearted woman on a farm along the Caribbean coast. That ordinary encounter — water offered, water received — is also part of the map we are drawing, little by little, of how our individuals move through the territory.