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FRONTLINE Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath sits down with journalists and filmmakers for probing conversations about the investigative journalism that drives each FRONTLINE documentary and the stories that shape our time. Produced at FRONTLINE’s headquarters at GBH and powered by PRX. The FRONTLINE Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation Journalism Initiative.
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Dr. Silvia Pavan was on a search for a squirrel that was missing from the genealogy tree when she and her team stumbled upon a new species of opossum in Abiseo River National Park on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, at the edge of the Amazon Basin. They found the squirrel they were looking for and more. Dr. Pavan joins the Exchange to discuss her adventure and what the discovery means.
Extremely remote and difficult to access, the 3000 square kilometer UNESCO World Heritage site contains significant archaeological sites revealing the presence of pre-Incan Chachapoya civilization, as well as signs of pre-Chachapoya occupation.
It is also home to a wide variety of of known and unknown fauna, including the the recently discovered unknown marsupial, dubbed the Marmosa chachapoya. Measuring just four inches long (approx. ten inches including the tail), this small member of the opossum family has reddish fur, a mouse-like face with a a long pointed nose and distinctive, black, goggle-like rings around the eyes.
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