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A Tower in the Treetops: A Radar Facility in Panama Finds a New Life as a Wildlife Observatory |
| Section: LIFE / LIFE AND IDEALS |
| Author: Nancy Hanna |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,672 Words, 9,903 Characters |
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Raśl Arias de Para picked me up at 4:45 a.m. at the McDonald's on Via Espana in his 4-by-4. This is my second trip to Canopy Tower, a world-class wildlife observatory Raśl is inaugurating. Our objective this time is to be there before dawn to experience from the very first moments the procession of events that unfold in a new day in a tropical rain forest. Within minutes, we are cruising along Panama City's new beltway into areas of what was formerly the U.S. Canal Zone.
Canopy Tower is Raśl's pet project. A distinguished former Panamanian banker who is now an environmentalist and ecotourism businessman, he was twice imprisoned as a political opponent of the Noriega regime. After a daunting search and cutting through thickets of both American and Panamanian red tape, Raśl managed to fin...
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...er fascinating, unseen world of colorful creatures in enchanted surroundings.
As we speed along the beltway, I hope that Canopy Tower is the harbinger of the new kind of venture we will see more of in the next millennium. I long for the time when all men can commune with nature as I just have, and war and poverty are a thing of the past. Today a new day dawned for me in a very special way.
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