Amazonas Conservation Initiative Peru

The Amazon rainforest of northern Peru includes vast areas that remain difficult to access for universities, NGOs, and government teams, not because they lack importance, but because logistics are complex and community relationships take time to build. Amazonas Conservation Initiative (ACIperu) is a small, field-oriented nonprofit working to make careful, ethical work possible in these regions through long-term presence, local collaboration, and practical on-the-ground coordination.

MISSION

Amazonas Conservation Initiative is dedicated to science-based conservation of threatened wildlife and their habitats, and to sustaining positive human–environment interactions with indigenous people who call the rain forest Home.

We believe conservation success is defined by helping nature thrive so the people who depend on it live productive and sustainable lives.

It means a protected forest with old-growth trees, clean river water, and honoring the traditions of indigenous people so they may live in harmony with nature.

WHERE WE WORK

Kampankis Amazonas

Kampankis Project Amazonas ~ 38,850 sq km (15,000 sq mi) consisting of regions covered by rainforests and mountain ranges.

The Kampankis Mountains that has been inhabited for centuries by Awajún people. Measuring ~180 km long but just 10 km wide, the Kampankis form a knife-thin ridge separated from the Cordillera del Cóndor to the west by a thin strip of lowland forest 40–60km wide.

~ Protected Rainforest Projects ~

154,485 Acres Protected

Under the guidance of Dr. Peter Lerche the Peruvian government, with support from Nature & Culture International (NCI), has granted conservation status to 154,485 acres (62,518 hectares) of Awajún ancestral land: Pamau Nain and Dase Nain Conservation Concessions.

520,447 Acres Proposed

Now, our work continues to protect some of the world’s most biodiverse and beautiful Amazon rainforests by establishing the conservation concessions of Tuyankuas and Shamak Nain:

520,447 acres (210,617 hectares)

SPECIAL SERVICES

Photography & Field Logistics

Video documentation: In the course of its fieldwork, Amazonas Conservation Initiative has supported photographic and video documentation for research, conservation, and educational purposes in remote regions of northern Peru.

WILDLIFE

Documentation

In recent years, ACI has been documenting first-hand testimony from Awajún communities living along tributaries of the Marañón River in northern Peru.

These communities report rare encounters with a large forest animal they refer to as Yana Pum. Accounts describe a dangerous animal that is rarely seen and typically encountered at higher elevations away from settled river villages.

Amazonas

Conservation Initiative