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Historical Boats of the Amazon PDF
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About
AmazonEco
Expedition Logistics
AmazonEco and their team of
researchers and conservationists have been working in the Peruvian
Amazon for over 27 years. During this time AmazonEco’s
team has conducted over 150 conservation and research expeditions
with more than 1,000 students, professors, and researchers to
remote wilderness areas of the Amazonian rainforest.
In
2007 AmazonEco provided support to world leading conservation
NGO’s, including the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
and the World Wildlife Fund - Peru (WWF-Peru).
Logistical support helped conserve the Lago Preto Conservation
Concession, Yavari River, the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve,
and the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, among others.
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WCS
team |
Lago
Preto |
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AmazonEco provided support to student expeditions run by the
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE),
Operation Wallacea (OpWall),
and the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES).
In 2007 over 120 students participated in expeditions and helped
conduct research on a wide range of topics including bat surveys,
primate behaviour, frog diversity, fisheries evaluations, caiman
populations, giant river otter ecology, among many other topics.
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Student
research |
DICE
expedition |
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AmazonEco
provided support to volunteer researchers in collaboration with
the Earthwatch
Institute. In 2007 over 80 volunteers helped conservation monitoring
by surveying macaws, dolphins, monkeys, fish, caimans, turtles
and wading birds. Volunteers also supported community projects.
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Pink
Dolphin |
Earthwatch
volunteer |
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AmazonEco assisted the BBC and Animal Planet in filming red
uaraki monkeys at the Lago Preto Conservation Concession, Yavari
River.
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Filming
for BBC |
Red
uakari monkey |
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AmazonEco
helped support the conservation efforts of local communities
in the Yavari Miri and Samiria rivers, providing educational
and health support to villagers.
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Villagers
with monkey |
Yavari-Miri
community work |
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AmazonEco
continued with helping conserve the history of the Peruvian
Amazon through the restoration of four historical boats, the
rubber boom boat “Ayapua”,
the naval boat “Clavero”, and two historic launches
“Fitzcarraldo” and “Cahuapanas”.
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Rubber
boom period |
Ayapua |
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AmazonEco operates in the
Peruvian Amazon of Loreto, which extends over 382,000 km2
of rainforest. We are based in Iquitos, Peru and often have
expeditions to the Yavari river and the Pacaya-Samiria National
Reserve, among many other localities in Loreto (see map below).
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