We are seeking volunteers to help us collect data on the critically endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey, to participate in habitat restoration and reforestation, and to assist in improving local awareness of environmental issues through education activities in schools.
Two 6-week-long expeditions starting January 2012 and mid February 2012 are available.
Qualifications/Experience: No qualifications or skills are necessary apart from a basic level of spoken Spanish, good fitness level and ability to cope with harsh working conditions and basic accommodation.
Salary/funding: A contribution is requested from the volunteer. It excludes travel to the field site but includes accommodation, food, wages for local guides, two excursions to Kuelap and the Gocta waterfall, training and a small contribution to the running of the project.
Last Friday NPC took part in a meeting between the management committee of the Alto Mayo Protected Forest (BPAM) and members of the neighbouring Chisquilla community and the district municipality.
The meeting discussed issues related to the conservation of BPAM and it’s buffer zone. Explaining to the community the objectives of forest conservation, the importance of good management within and around the reserve and the challanges faced. The villagers expressed their interests and doubts. They presented their own initiative of a communal reserve they are conserving and asked for help in legal protection of this area.
Karla Ramirez of NPC offered our support and expertise to the community of Chisquilla on the process of registering the reserve, as
well as making presentations and workshops on environmental education.
The meeting finished with the formation of a committee that will organize and try to fund these issues. NPC is a member of the board of this new committee.
On the 26th of July we handed in the proposal for a new Conservation Concession in San Martin, Peru. The area, to be run by a local committee of villagers from Ricardo Palma is home to the endemic and Critically Endangered (Callicebus oenanthe) and other primate species, as well as whole host of other endemic and endangered animals. The area of the concession covers over 1,500 ha of primary rain forest in one of the most deforested areas of Peru. This new area borders another Conservation Concession we are working towards with the community of Bagazan. Together the two areas will protect approximately 8,000 ha of habitat.
San Martin suffers from the highest deforestation rates in Peru with nearly 85% of the region completely deforested. The main threats to wildlife and forests in this area are clear cutting for pasture and logging concessions. The local people from the villages of Ricardo Palma and Bagazan are committed to conservation, not only through the registration of these reserves but also through their decision to cultivate organic cacao. We are now awaiting news from the regional and national authorities on the progress of these two proposals.
This week the Peruvian ministry of the environment has announced the official resolution (Resolución Ministerial Nº123-2011-MINAM) creating the Private Conservation Area “Hierba Buena-Allpayacu”. This reserve covers an area of 2,282.12 hectares of cloud forests in the community of Corosha, Amazonas department. We began work in this area in 2007/8 and have been joined by other institutions, headed by The Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) to help register the reserve.
The reserve is home to two endemic primate species, the yellow tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) and the Peruvian night monkey (Aotus miconax) and many spectacular bird species including the long whiskered owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) and the Pale-billed Antpitta (Grallaria carrikerii). The reserve also protects other species of flora and fauna, preserves the communities water resources, which are also used as the source of hydroelectric energy as well as conserving the community’s cultural heritage. The creation of this area is the first of a series of community run reserves NPC is working to make in the north east of Peru.
Visitors who wish to visit the reserve can contact us through our website to arrange for guides and accommodation. 100% of profits from tourism go directly to the members of the community.
This week we officially entered a request for a new Conservation Concession for an area of 440 ha of forest near the village of Delta, Amazonas department. The request is in the name of Senor Rosas Torres Guerrero a local farmer that has been protecting this area for the last 10 years and asked for our help in gaining legal recognition. The area will be called “Iguahuana -Delta’s Dry Forests”. Iguahuana is the local name of an endemic tree species abundant in the area. The forests in the area are classed as Dry Forest of the Marañon River Valley, they suffer from extremely high rates of destruction and as yet this forest type is not found in any protected area. We hope that the authorities will approve the request promptly. We wish to thank all the people that helped in the elaboration of this request.
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Last Friday NPC took part in a meeting between the management committee of the Alto Mayo Protected Forest (BPAM) and members of the neighbouring Chisquilla community and the district municipality.
