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Fauna Forever Tambopata (FFT) is a long-term wildlife, ecotourism and biodiversity monitoring project. With a current focus on the Tambopata National Reserve, Bahuaja Sonene National Park and associated buffer zones, FFT exists to: monitor the population status of wildlife species; evaluate the social and economic benefits of wildlife; identify any significant unwanted human impact; and educate and inspire the growing number of nature volunteers from around the globe by providing extraordinary wildlife encounters. FFT is the flagship initiative of Asociacion Fauna Forever and is based in the south-eastern Peruvian Amazon. The project runs almost entirely from the physical and financial support of our incredible volunteers.
Successfully researching and conserving the rainforest in the south-east of Peru for over 10 years, hundreds of FFT volunteers have gained specialist skills and a wealth of experience while carrying out over 5000 km of transects to record some 425 primate groups, 1102 rodent groups, 3 bushmasters, 967 treefrogs, a single grison, 2 jaguars, 15 ocelots, and while capturing 5244 birds, all to better understand and protect this vital part of our planet!
In the Madre de Dios region, which forms part of the most biologically diverse region on Earth, endangered species such as giant river otter, harpy eagle, bush dog, black caiman, and jaguar still find a good home. However, with a rapidly expanding human population, encroaching deforestation from the building of roads and strong growth in agricultural production and placer gold mining, and even an increasing number of tourist visitors allowed access to the Tambopata Reserve area, the threats to the region's wildlife are increasing.
Fauna Forever Tambopata is better measuring the effects of human activities on wildlife, both inside and outside of reserves and national parks, and the changes in natural populations as a result of increasing isolation and habitat loss due to deforestation and climate change. We are getting the information about such effects and changes to the people who can make decisions and act on the solutions. FFT volunteers are making a difference by helping save the greatest rainforest on Earth, the Amazon.
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"My time in the Amazon solidified a life-long passion for conservation, and serves as a foundational experience that I can draw from for energy and direction in the future. On lighter terms, it was also an absolute blast and although the time flew by faster than I would have hoped, I could spend days reflecting on the memories from Peru. From waking up to the sound of howler monkeys overhead while sleeping in a hammock at an oxbow lake to chasing a giant anteater through the jungle, they're difficult to put into words and impossible to think of without smiling. - Ian Rowbotham (Stanford University, USA), Volunteer Phase 10.45
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