Manuel: This rainforest El Yunque National Tropical Rainforest is one of the oldest forest in the western hemisphere, is the United States jurisdiction. The Espanos in 1976, they found a treasure here. They found excellent commercial word. They found minus, copper and gold and the abundance of water.
Female: What is the origin of the name of the rainforest?
Manuel: The name is David, the name Yuke, we spelled it Y U K E which means sacred land, white mountains, white clouds. The Spanish, when they separated to about some acres of land, they rephrase it a little bit. They named it Yunque and Yunque anvil, sharp piece of viand and it does look sharp from a distance.
Up there, we have many fibers, orchids and plenty of moss areas. Well, the forest, we have seen many birds up there, the biggest bird here would be the rattail hock.
Female: Rattail hock. How many types of plants would you say there are in this rainforest?
Manuel: This is in the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, they are good medicine. There are scientists. They do a lot of research in this mountain, in this forest and to help other forest throughout the world for medicine purposes.
Female: Manuel, what is the rainforest mean to you personally?
Manuel: Well, I have passion from Asia and I come here quite frequently, it’s like my second home.
Female: Here in the rainforest?
Manuel: Here in this beautiful rain forest.
Female: How much time do you think you spend here?
Manuel: Well, I come here even on my days off.
Female: You do, really?
Manuel: Yes, on my days off, I come with my family and we share all the things that Mother Nature provides for us. We breath this beautiful oxygen that is here and then when we go back home, we feel asleep.
Female: So how do you experience rainforest from the ground? It’s now time for view from the top.
Male: Where you use to look through a tree from the front? The south, now you’re looking from the top to the bottom. So that will give you a different point of view of the rain forest.
Many opportunities of our people to operate, this is not something that you can show this every morning. Many for other people that is why they’re in rainforest in the morning, we do every morning. All the tour guy had one to two hundred experiences.
I got the eyes with you. I have no expectations before it’s time but I just told to the people like don’t do the fellow. Once they’re finished, they want to have something to back here. This is the new type of seeing the rainforest is the way of you’re thinking and definitely it was the ultimate in the rainforest.
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