From Huanchaco, Peru for The NYTimes: Centuries before the Spanish arrived and long before the Incas extended their empire from the mountaintops to the coast, fishermen here were building boats from the totora reed that grows along the shore. Today, a handful of fishermen keep up that tradition, growing and harvesting the reeds and forming them into the boats that are known as caballitos de totora, or little reed horses. All that is changing. The marshy beds where fishermen grow the reeds are being destroyed as the shoreline erodes. And the small reserve set aside for the plants is itself under threat, increasingly hemmed in by houses and real estate speculators as seaside land values rise. Read more here: nytimes/2014/08/08/world/americas/towns-floating-symbol-fading-into-the-sunset.html?_r=0#
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:04:00 +0000
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