Product Description:  The Kampankis mountains are a knife-thin ridge in northern Peru that rises 1,435 m above the surrounding Amazon lowlands. For three weeks, a group of researchers explored both the biological diversity and cultural values of the Cerros de Kampankis landscape, with the aim of promoting the long-term conservation of the area by the local Awajún and Wampis indigenous peoples...read more

Product Description:  In the fall of 2004, scientists from Chicago's Field Museum conducted a biological inventory in the forests of the Comunidad Nativa Matsés in the northeastern region of the Peruvian Amazon. This assessment, presented in English, Spanish, and Matsés, collects their research on the plant and animal ecology of the Amazon, includes a brief history of the region and the indigenous Matsés people, and concludes with recommendations for the region’s long-term management...read more

Product Description: Conducted during the spring of 2004 on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, this inventory offers biological and social analyses of the Zona Reservada Megantoni. The participating scientists survey three of the most inaccessible and isolated sites in this rugged territory, examining vascular plants, dung beetles, fishes, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and large mammals...read more