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Susan Saradon Hugs a Llama to Ease World Hunger
Actress and humanitarian Susan Sarandon hugs a llama pal for Heifer International (Can anyone resist a marketing campaign that features these photogenic Andean camelids?) This is a charity project I like. Actress Susan Sarandon is promoting an organization that battles world hunger by donating dairy cows and other farm animals to subsistence farmers. It’s a simple idea and one that really can help ease poverty in areas where people struggle to nourish themselves. If you have ever visited the puna in Peru, you have seen for yourself how disadvantaged people in far-flung regions scrape by on the paltriest amounts of food. Here is Saradon’s essay from the CNN “Planet in Peril” blog: Susan Sarandon Actress and…
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Another Arequipa Wedding Guest
Cute llama pix are a needed tonic to the barrage of awfulness in today’s world. A self-professed llama freak, from Eugene, Oregon, has asked for more camelids on this site. Of course, I oblige. Figure 1: Munching alpaca at Jose & Daniela’s wedding, photo c. Barbara Drake 2008
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Arequipa Wedding Guest
In March, El Fotografo, El Hijo and I went to a wedding in Arequipa, an old colonial city in southern Peru. The wedding reception was held at a sort of an ecological/conservation site, which included a mini farm with typical Peruvian animals: llamas, alpacas, sheep and a lone vicuna. There were about 250 people at the wedding, and when you got tired of being with them, you could head out back to hang out with animals. Most of them were friendly, except for the vicuna, who was high-strung and had a pen all to himself and liked to spit at people. This photo is either of a llama or an alpaca: the…
