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Contact:
Martin Schmidt
Marketing and Sales
Rainforest Expeditions
Av. Aramburu 166, 2b
Miraflores, Lima 18, Perú
Tel: +511/421-8347
Fax: +511/421-8183
mschmidt@rainforest.com.pe
www.perunature.com
Recommended by:
Conservation International, Peru
www.conservation.org.pe
www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/
regions/neotropics/andes.xml
n.pardo@conservation.org
Type of accommodation:
Bed & breakfast, lodge, inn
Research station
Features:
Laundry facilities
Restaurant
Number of rooms: 18.
Year founded: 1992.
Number of employees: 10; in addition, we employ 35-40 guides between the lodges
Percent of employees who are local residents: 90%.
Type of destination:
Farm, ranch (rural)
Forest/rainforest
River, lake, wetland
Able to accommodate:
Families
Gay/lesbian
Singles
Singles with children
Seniors
Description of the area:
The Tambopata National Reserve and Bahuaja Sonene National Park are in Madre de Dios department in southeastern Peru, which has an area of 53,000 miles (85,000 km). This area is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, housing healthy populations of animal species that have large ranges, such as jaguars, river otters, tapirs, macaws and harpy eagles. The reserve and the park protect habitats including snow-capped peaks in the Andes, pristine cloud forests, and lowland rainforests of the Amazon basin. Tambopata National Reserve, Bahuaja Sonene National Park and their buffer zones protect more than 3.7 million acres (1.5 million hectares) of tropical forest.
Tambopata National Reserve has 680,000 acres (275,000 hectares) and its objective is to protect the wildlife and beautiful landscapes within the reserve area, and to ensure sustainable natural resource use. The world-famous macaw clay lick [a red clay area by the river where many macaws congregate] and the Tambopata Research Center ecotourism concession are found in its territory. The Reserve protects more than 1,300 bird species including 32 species of parrots (10% of the world’s parrots), 200 species of mammals, 90 species of amphibians and 10,000 species of vascular plants.
Bahuaja-Sonene National Park has an area of 2.5 million acres (1,091,000 hectares) and houses intact populations of several species of animals that are endangered or extinct in other regions of the Amazon. Diversity is high among birds and insects such as butterflies, dragonflies, and arboreal ants. It contains the largest clay lick for macaws and parrots on the planet and the largest Brazil nut forests of Peru. Part of the park adjoins Madidi National Park in Bolivia.
The Tambopata Research Center is in the Tambopata National Reserve and it is located only 500 m from the world’s largest clay lick used by macaws and parrots and very near Bahuaja – Sonene National Park. For more than a decade this center has been carrying out an extensive study on macaws and parrots. It is also one of the best places in the Amazon for watching wildlife in this major threatened ecosystem.
Available activities:
Adventure, sports
Bird watching
Canopy exploration
Eco/nature/wildlife
Educational, research, volunteering
Tours
Visits to conservation projects
Walking/hiking
How to get there:
The boat ride to the Tambopata Research Center from Puerto Maldonado takes seven hours.
Making a difference:
Rainforest Expeditions administers four initiatives: Amazonas Inn, the Tambopata Research Center and the Amazonas Refuge in the Amazon in southeastern Peru, and Konchukos Tambo in the Peruvian Central Andes near the highest tropical mountains of the world.
For more than 10 years the Tambopata Research Center has been funding psittacid (parrot and macaw) research and conservation. The work conducted has helped establish visitation policy and minimum standards for visitors to the macaw clay lick.
General rates:
$$$$$ (150 or more) -- Approximate rates per night with lodging, food, transport, activities, and guides.
Click here for more information about Rainforest Expeditions’ rates.
Date this information was provided: May, 2007.
