The Upper Amazon Conservancy is dedicated to protecting the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon headwaters in southeastern Peru. UAC works with its Peruvian partner organization, ProPurús, and in close collaboration with indigenous peoples, government agencies and other NGOs to strengthen the region’s protected areas, build the capacity of its local communities and affect well-informed, sustainable public policy.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 7, 2012 PUERTO ESPERANZA, Perú — Local indigenous communities and their federation, FECONAPU, are fighting construction of a proposed road through the Purús region that would threaten their traditional way of life. The proposed road would connect the Purús, the very headwaters of the Amazon and one of the world’s …
November, 2011: This recent video is a poignant reminder that the so-called “Uncontacted Indians” of the Peruvian Amazon are voluntarily-isolated: they are little understood, inadequately represented, and often, the least appreciated of the Amazon’s remarkable cultural and natural heritage. Videos like this one, taken in the Manú region, which neighbors the Alto Purús, highlight the importance of protecting the …
July 2011 The Upper Amazon Conservancy is excited to announce the creation of ProPurús, its Peruvian partner organization and registered non-profit group that will support our efforts on the ground in Lima and the Upper Amazon region surrounding the Alto Purús National Park. ProPurús will be based in Lima, with field offices in Puerto Esperanza …
August 2011 Together with the Peruvian Park Service, SERNANP, the Upper Amazon Conservancy and its Peruvian partner, ProPurús, have been helping to train official guards of the Alto Purús National Park. We also are the primary supporter and trainer of ‘vigilance committees’ made up of indigenous men and women from local communities surrounding the Park. …
August 2011 Illegal Mahogany Loggers Penetrate Heart of Uncontacted Tribal Reserve in Peru UCAYALI, Peru — An Upper Amazon Conservancy http://www.upperamazon.org/PDF/Murunahua_Report_July2010.pdf investigation has exposed an illegal logging camp and an expansive network of forest roads along the border of the Murunahua Reserve for Uncontacted Peoples. The road system is part of a greater clandestine network …
July 2011 Upper Amazon Conservancy director Chris Fagan and Professor David Salisbury of the University of Richmond, a member of UAC’s advisory board, recently co-authored a study, published this month in GeoJournal, on the advancing coca frontier in Peru’s Amazon region and its mounting socio-economic and conservation impacts. Peru is now believed to be the …