Pluma

Nickname: Pluma (“Feather”)
Real name: Jorge
Age: as a friend described it, “38 going on 21”

Pluma worked in a hardware store in Puerto Maldonado before he came to CICRA, but now he’s our grounds-keeper, gardener, and jack-of-all-trades. He knows a lot about medicinal rainforest plants, all of which he learned while working at CICRA. Gabe gave him a harmonica and he’s learning to play it. For some reason he also really likes to sit in the dining room and strum random combinations of strings on our guitar. It’s a sound I can’t describe, and you probably wouldn’t want me to if I could. He and Marco are the loveable scoundrels of CICRA—you can always count on them for an inappropriate joke.

Random fact: Adrian says Pluma learned how to prepare floral baths from a Peruvian shaman who taught some classes at the station. ...We have yet to see him perform any shamanic rites.