Madre de Dios is one of the last great wildernesses on Earth. With thousands of animal and plant species it is one of the world’s centers of biodiversity and one of the last places in the world where indigenous Indian still live without any physical or social contact with civilisation.
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Unsustainable land-use threatens this paradise. We showed that more than 30,000 mammals were killed by loggers in 2002 and recorded the illegal intrusion of more than 2000 illegal loggers into areas protected for un-contacted Indians. 15,000 mahogany trees were cut illegally in 2002 driving this endangered species close to extinction. more...

We are an international team based at the University of Edinburgh. We collaborate with the Tambopata Reserve Society and WWF-Perú.
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