
Fauna Forever (FF) is a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation that manages a series of research, training and conservation projects in the Tambopata area of the Madre de Dios region in south-eastern Peru, with a current emphasis on the Tambopata National Reserve (TNR), Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP), and associated buffer zones. Much of Tambopata, which is accessed via the town of Puerto Maldonado, is dominated by species-rich rainforest that is recognised by Conservation International as a biodiversity hotspot and wilderness area, by BirdLife International as an important bird area, and is already the foremost nature-based tourism destination in the Amazon.
Fauna Forever was born out of a research project established in 1997 and is partnered with TREES-PERU, a not-for-profit organisation (now officially called Asociacion para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Madre de Dios), and the Tambopata Reserve Society (TReeS), a British conservation charity based in London. Long-term cooperative agreements have been signed with TREES-PERU, TReeS, as well as the Asociacion para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo Integral (AIDER), the latter of which is a not-for-profit organisation that has been contracted by the Peruvian National Parks Service (SERNANP) to plan and oversee research and monitoring efforts in the TNR and BSNP, and which is also developing numerous forest-based carbon credit projects around Peru.
Fauna Forever currently manages the following projects: Fauna Forever Tambopata (FFT), FotoForever (FoF), Bird Ringing Forever (BRF), and Forest Corridors Forever (FCF).
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