{"id":67276,"date":"2025-03-27T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67276"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:18:15","slug":"ecuador-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/ecuador-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador land of my dreams<\/p>\n<p>land of my birth<\/p>\n<p>my paradise<\/p>\n<p>I be a brown faced Spider Monkey<\/p>\n<p>critically endangered now<\/p>\n<p>critical hectares of forest<\/p>\n<p>being destroyed \u00a0and this is how<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the residents, the animals<\/p>\n<p>the \u00a0indigenous peoples<\/p>\n<p>And growers who<\/p>\n<p>work the Cacao night and day<\/p>\n<p>mosquitoes wise<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s very true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its so much harder to make ends meet<\/p>\n<p>to find the food \u00a0to then compete<\/p>\n<p>with logging ruffians<\/p>\n<p>night and day<\/p>\n<p>who steal our precious foods away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its not just us<\/p>\n<p>all of us here<\/p>\n<p>the insect life emboldened fear<\/p>\n<p>the other trees and animals too<\/p>\n<p>we need the spirit of Nature<\/p>\n<p>You<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>people of the western World<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t \u00a0chop the trees down<\/p>\n<p>for we are hurled<\/p>\n<p>into oblivion, into pain<\/p>\n<p>our forest homes<\/p>\n<p>destroyed \u00a0again<\/p>\n<p>Aawz<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the WASHU project<\/p>\n<p>that cacao where<\/p>\n<p>growing is hard<\/p>\n<p>when people care<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s possible but tragically<\/p>\n<p>the corporates come<\/p>\n<p>destructively<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>isolated communities<\/p>\n<p>real native people<\/p>\n<p>who really see<\/p>\n<p>the jungle for its wondrous wealth<\/p>\n<p>not the \u00a0evil souls of stealth<\/p>\n<p>who steal our medicines<\/p>\n<p>and then pollute<\/p>\n<p>who take our food<\/p>\n<p>and always root<\/p>\n<p>up the crops \u00a0in which we depend<\/p>\n<p>I am a spider monkey<\/p>\n<p>and your friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador land of my dreams land of my birth my paradise I be a brown faced Spider Monkey critically endangered now critical hectares of forest being destroyed \u00a0and this is how &nbsp; the residents, the animals the \u00a0indigenous peoples And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/ecuador-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,4,10,322,603,80,665,740,23,25,305,316,215,102,36,618,752,637,521,831,441,419,116,594,491,684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-animal-rights","category-bolivia","category-corporate-manslaughter","category-criminality","category-ecuador","category-ecuador-2","category-ecuador-and-its-almighty-splendour","category-emotional-poems","category-ethereal-poems","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-freedom-and-whats-happening-to-it","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-indigenous-people","category-indonesia","category-lack-of-understanding","category-logging","category-love-and-respect","category-midfulness","category-mining-and-destruction-of-habitat","category-mladenovak-serbia-rescue","category-monkeys-and-primates","category-mountains","category-odes-of-the-moment","category-organic-harvesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67278,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67276\/revisions\/67278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}