Left in the Dark Jungle
Not long after we established Camp Leakey in 1971, we began learning a number of things about working in the jungle fairly…
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The Gold Miners Up the Sekonyer River
Back in 2002, I was at Camp Leakey helping coordinate the volunteers when we got word of an illegal gold-mining operation farther…
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