Stacey Hollis (@stacebird) lives in Bocas del Toro, Panama. She has a background in field biology and now takes tourist on various eco-tours like snorkeling and birdwatching. Stacey is from the Washington D.C. area and carries a lifelong, innate passion for birds. This passion only increased as she grew up enough to begin to become aware of the sad fact that birds and ecosystems in general are threatened by human impact. The biodiversity, (specifically that of bird species) of the New World American Tropics is what lured her down into Central America and instantly gave her a clear idea of what she hoped for her future.

We talk about Stacey's journey through field biology to becoming an eco-tour guide, birds, fish, coral, sponges, coral bleaching, the Ngöbe indigenous people and their struggle to survive, the underwater enviroment in Bocas del Toro, coral-reef ecology, symbiosis, mangrove habitats, French angelfish, peregrine falcons, and more.

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