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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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From our Pachamama Office in Ecuador Pachamama Participates in "Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon Basin" Congress From Sept 24-29th, over 200 participants from more than 20 countries and indigenous nations met in the city of Cusco, Peru to discuss and share conservation strategies with one another.
Ecuador is experiencing the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon Basin and indigenous communities are suffering from the devastating environmental and social impacts of thirty years of irresponsible oil development.
Because tilapia are illegal in the Peruvian Amazon Basin, the Global Experiment could not be conducted in Peru.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Peru is a land of dramatic contrasts -- from the broad deserts that line the Pacific coast to the fertile valleys along the western slope of the Andes -- to the towering mountains themselves -- to the Amazon basin, which begins in the streams that descend the mountains' eastern slope.
The Amazon basin lies east of the Andes and it covered by dense tropical rain forest jungles and crossed by countless rivers and streams.
The Amazon basin is bordered on the western side by the steep and geologically active Andes Mountains that are generally barren of vegetation.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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It is a herb from the Amazon and Orinococ basins that has no know side effects.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Unfortunately no other reserve in Ecuador protects rainforests located in the small belt of Wet Tropical Rainforest which connect the Andes Mountain Range and the Amazon River Basin.
Here the pavement ends and a gravel road plunges downwards, quickly entering a world of waterfalls and lush greenery on the wetter Amazon Basin side of the Andes chain.
In 1998, I traveled to Peru to go trekking in the Andes Mountains and also to take an Amazon River boatride to explore the Amazon basin.
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