In February, I spent my second field season in the Tierras Collectives Emberá, where we have our permanent plot: Bacurú Drõa. The project started in 2021 by the internationally recognized climate scientist Catherine Potvin, now emeritus professor at McGill university. I joined the scientific leadership of the project in 2023 with the tropical biologist Dr. Daisy Dent (ETH Zurich), the social scientist Joseph Levitan (McGill University) and Javier Mateo-Vega(Assistant Under Secretary for Research...