Hmm, best to skip the dating scene in Medellin, I think.
"In the first 10 months of 2023, Medellin's tourism observatory had already recorded 32 violent killings of foreigners in the city - including at least 12 Americans and three from the United Kingdom - a 40% increase from the previous year. ... The embassy says several of these cases began with a dating app used to lure victims, part of a concerning increase in people who end up "drugged, robbed, and even killed by their Colombian dates". Neither Tinder nor Bumble, both popular in the city, would comment."
I'm not an economist and I can't tell you what the tuition was for this school in 1995 when #AileenCannon attended, but today the annual #Tuition is $49,250 plus assorted fees, $197,000 for four years. This is a HIGH SCHOOL, not a university. Maybe she received a scholarship or had some other form of financial aid. If she did, she hasn't disclosed it anywhere. Cannon arrived from #Colombia and entered an exclusive private HS. Who paid?
The insect pornographer strikes again. This seems to be one of the really odd couplings that don't seem like they should work yet somehow do. Is it just me or does it seem like they like the camera being there? I have no idea what species or even genus these are.
#Landscapes from la Laguna de #Suesca, a quiet place 2800 m high above sea level, and about 70 km north of the intense and busy city of#Bogotá, #Colombia, where I was born.
Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines,...
Perhaps not as bonkers as last week, but this is a rather large and slightly spiky flower weevil (Pteracanthus smidtii) hailing from the cloud forest in western Colombia
Here's a head scratcher. I have this unidentified beetle that seems to closely resemble some Vexing Rove Beetles (Atheta sp.)
It really looks to me to be eating this leaf. There was a similar track in the same leaf with two of them in it. I couldn't get my camera in close enough to get pictures though. The problem is, I have never heard of rove beetles being herbivores. What gives? Are they eating mold?
“Pablo Escobar’s Multiplying ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Will Be Sterilized in #Colombia
The country’s #hippo population has grown to about 170, and officials warn it could reach 1,000 individuals by 2035 if left uncontrolled”
Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Farallones de Cali National Park, located on Columbia's Pacific coast, will undergo long-term habitat restoration.
Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them (news.mongabay.com)
Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines,...