David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating so many astounding orchid species by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating so many astounding orchid species by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating so many astounding orchid species by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating so many astounding orchid species by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichocentrum longicalcaratum in situ. Imagination of nature has no limit to adapt to hundreds of particular habitats with specific microclimate, creating so many astounding orchid species by their shapes, colors and fragrances. Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The "chiva". Traditional colombian transport to reach mountains and remote areas. Though rarer than before, it still exists. Powerful, quick and resistant to carry persons as well as what these need to transport in abrupt lands, bad , steep, muddy roads.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Nice event. I have been invited to give a talk about orchid conservation, as biologists Joel Tupac Otero on orchid pollination and Natalia Henao on ecosystem restoration, by biologist Jazmín Alomía in a community project. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Nice event. I have been invited to give a talk about orchid conservation, as biologists Joel Tupac Otero on orchid pollination and Natalia Henao on ecosystem restoration, by biologist Jazmín Alomía in a community project. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Nice event. I have been invited to give a talk about orchid conservation, as biologists Joel Tupac Otero on orchid pollination and Natalia Henao on ecosystem restoration, by biologist Jazmín Alomía in a community project. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Nice event. I have been invited to give a talk about orchid conservation, as biologists Joel Tupac Otero on orchid pollination and Natalia Henao on ecosystem restoration, by biologist Jazmín Alomía in a community project. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Nice event. I have been invited to give a talk about orchid conservation, as biologists Joel Tupac Otero on orchid pollination and Natalia Henao on ecosystem restoration, by biologist Jazmín Alomía in a community project. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Thank you to the Colombian Foundation for the Heart to invite me to give a talk at the Third Vitamin N Congress, in COP 16 program, on the topic "Life testimony. Man and Nature" in Santiago de Cali University, in Cali, Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Thank you to the Colombian Foundation for the Heart to invite me to give a talk at the Third Vitamin N Congress, in COP 16 program, on the topic "Life testimony. Man and Nature" in Santiago de Cali University, in Cali, Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Thank you to the Colombian Foundation for the Heart to invite me to give a talk at the Third Vitamin N Congress, in COP 16 program, on the topic "Life testimony. Man and Nature" in Santiago de Cali University, in Cali, Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Thank you to the Colombian Foundation for the Heart to invite me to give a talk at the Third Vitamin N Congress, in COP 16 program, on the topic "Life testimony. Man and Nature" in Santiago de Cali University, in Cali, Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Epidendrum cottoniiflorum, endemic from Colombia, blooming during an orchid observation day in situ I guided with Tolima Biodiversa Expediciones during the Cali orchid exhibition, and COP 16, organized by the Valle del Cauca Orchid Association.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Important for the planet, COP 16 was also crucial to give visibility to Cali, Colombia, and to many people and organizations fighting for nature, biodiversity and traditional cultures conservation. Here a talk with Wade Davis and Martin Von Hildebrand.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Important for the planet, COP 16 was also crucial to give visibility to Cali, Colombia, and to many people and organizations fighting for nature, biodiversity and traditional cultures conservation. Here a talk with Wade Davis and Martin Von Hildebrand.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Coming back from COP 16, to welcome me in the forest where I live above the city of Cali (world biodiversity capital), I met this marvelous Rhetus dysonii on the trail. A species from the Riodinidae family. Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: And if food was indicated with colors like this plant does it for hummingbirds ? Guzmania gloriosa (close to Guzmania squarrosa but I think it is G. gloriosa). In situ during a Bromeliad and botany tour I guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombi
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Cattleya quadricolor, endangered endemic species from Colombia, reintroduced on Samanea saman trees in its native region by Orquídeas del Valle producer. During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Cattleya quadricolor, endangered endemic species from Colombia, reintroduced on Samanea saman trees in its native region by Orquídeas del Valle producer. During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Cattleya quadricolor, endangered endemic species from Colombia, reintroduced on Samanea saman trees in its native region by Orquídeas del Valle producer. During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Cattleya quadricolor, endangered endemic species from Colombia, reintroduced on Samanea saman trees in its native region by Orquídeas del Valle producer. During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Cattleya quadricolor, endangered endemic species from Colombia, reintroduced on Samanea saman trees in its native region by Orquídeas del Valle producer. During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Maxillaria meleagris. Maxillaria has always been one of my favorite genera, I study and grow it since my passion for tropical orchids began, 30 years ago, in part in Guatemala from where this species is native (also from Mexico and Honduras) !
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Small paradise in the warm super wet tropical jungles of the Biogeographic Choco (plains and mountains bordering the Pacific Ocean). During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany observation tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Damselfly (probably Megaloprepus caerulatus) in the warm super wet tropical jungle of the Biogeographic Choco (plains and mountains bordering the Pacific Ocean). During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I guided in Valle del Cauca & Cauca depts. Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) in the warm super wet tropical jungle of the Biogeographic Choco (plains and mountains bordering the Pacific Ocean). During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany tour I guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts. Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Holcossus anomalus, endemic from Colombia in the warm super wet tropical jungle of the Biogeographic Choco (plains and mountains bordering the Pacific). During a 7 days Bromeliad and botany observation tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts