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Santa Cruz woodland restorationThree local newspaper articles on the restoration of woodland by school children in Santa Cruz, Paracas, under the project's 'children's woodlands' scheme. |
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Plant photos
Click here to view a selection of images of the plants of Ica.
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Books
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Plants and Vegetation of Ica, Peru (low resolution PDF)Click HERE for full low-resolution PDF (14.5MB) For slow connections, the document can be downloaded in 3 smaller files: |
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Restoration book: Planting the future (PDF)Due for full colour publication in 2011 Black-and-white preliminary version available HERE |
Articles and publicity
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BBC – News: Tree planting in the driest place on Earth |
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BBC Mundo: Salvando al árbol madre de Ica |
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Geographical Magazine: Getting to the root of the problem |
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Kew Magazine: Rescue mission |
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Kew Magazine: Messages from the past – writing on cacti tells a story a century old |
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BBC: Reviving the trees of life |
Films
Short films: Native plant propagation in Ica
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A tour of our native plant nursery, Ica, Peru by Felix Quinteros, the manager. ‘Un recorrido del Vivero de Plantas Nativas'.
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Short films: Sustainable use of dry forest in Northern Peru
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Los bosques secos del norte del Perú 1 - El algarrobo y sus usos – introducción
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Los bosques secos del Perú 2 - Planta procesadora de algarroba Santa María de Locuto
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Los bosques secos del Perú 3 - Asociación de Mujeres Ecobosque – Locuto
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Los bosques secos del norte del Perú 4 - Producción algarrobina – Catacaos
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Los bosques secos del norte del Perú 5 - Asociación Chutuque
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Los bosques secos del norte del Perú 7 - Elaboración de compost y humus
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Los bosques secos del Perú 8 - Laboratorio de Dendrochronología UPP
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Other short project films
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Harvesting the Huarango pod
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The king of the desert is dying
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Posters
Biodiversity and ecology
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Plants of Ica
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Birds of Ica
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Reptiles of Ica
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Lizards of Ica
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Cycles of life in Ica
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Huarango life cycle
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Black-necked woodpecker |
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Woodland restoration
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Huarango plagues
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Ecological Brigades
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ANIA poster - what's happening in Ica forests?
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Huarango festival
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Huarango Festival 2011
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Huarango Festival 2010
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Huarango Festival 2008
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Scientific articles
Whaley, O.Q, D.G. Beresford-Jones, W. Milliken, A. Orellana, A. Smyk and J. Leguia. (2011) An ecosystem approach to restoration and sustainable management of dry forest in Southern Peru. Kew Bulletin 65(4): 613-641.
David G. Beresford-Jones, Oliver Whaley, Carmela Alarcón Ledesma and Lauren Cadwallader. (2011)Two millennia of changes in human ecology: archaeobotanical and invertebrate records from the lower Ica valley, South Coast Peru. Journal of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany DOI 10.1007/s00334-011-0292-4.
Beresford-Jones, D.G., C. Alarcón, S. Arce, A. Chepstow-Lusty, O. Whaley, F. Sturt, M. Gorriti, O. Portocarrero and L. Cadwallader (2011). Ocupación y subsistencia durante el horizonte temprano en el contexto de cambios ecológicos a largo plazo en las cuencas de Samaca y Ullujaya, valle baja de Ica, in El Periodo Formativo en el Perú, edited by Kaulicke, P. and Onuki, Y. Boletín de Arqueología pucp 13, Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Cadwallader, L., Beresford-Jones, D. G., Whaley O. Q., O’Connell, T. C. (2012). The Signs of Maize? A Reconsideration of What δ13C Values Say about Palaeodiet in the Andean Region. Human Ecology, 40 (4): 487-509
J. Octavio Pecho, Oscar González, Evelyn Pérez, Mario Tenorio y Oliver Q. Whaley. (2010) El Pájaro Carpintero Peruano Colaptes atricollis en la agricultura tradicional de la región de Ica, Perú: primeras observaciones de anidación y el desarrollo de polluelos Cotinga online 32: 8–11.
Beresford-Jones, D.G., S. Arce, O.Q. Whaley and A. Chepstow-Lusty. (2009) The Role of Prosopis in Ecological and Landscape Change in the Samaca Basin, Lower Ica Valley, South Coast Peru from the Early Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period. Latin American Antiquity 20: 303-332.
Solis, P., Ena, E. & Tenorio Maldonado, M.I. (2008). Relación entre la estructura del hábitat y la comunidad de aves en el fundo agroecológico Huaquina, Chincha, Peru. Batchelrs Thesis, Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga, Ica.
