The Amazon rainforest, covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru and other South American countries, is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the only of its kind for biodiversity. It’s filled with thousands of rivers, including the famous Amazon.
We’ll take you to Puerto Maldonado by land, where you will meet our Biologist and his team and go by river to his solar powered camp within the Amazon jungle. Raul, our biologist and his team, specialize in the study of various monkeys and bats. In cooperation with many universities, Raul hosts students and interns from around the world all year long.
Not only does Raul and his team study these incredible mammals, he has also been empowered by the Peruvian government to protect his section of the jungle from illegal activities such as poaching and deforestation. He is also part of a project involved in the reforestation of the Amazon forest. His team has been involved in replanting native trees as well as protecting what has been growing for centuries. Reforestation has been widely reported as having mind-blowing potential to tackle not just the crisis in the world’s rainforests, but in healing the damaging (and increasing) effects of climate change that our planet is experiencing.
Write to us for more detail, and join us in this ongoing endeavor to heal the planet and learn more about the wildlife in the rainforest of Peru.
