Soon after Anita Cajas and Vinicio Bacuilima started farming their little patch of land, they faced a major problem. In Anita’s words, they soon attracted “a plague of birds”, which feasted on their precious crops.
Then, during the Covid-19 pandemic, a man stopped on the road outside their house, and asked the couple if he could take photographs of the birds on the property. Afterwards, he suggested that instead of trying to get rid of the birds, they should instead learn to live alongside them, and Maraksacha Reserve was born.
