Peru Verde Association

• Promote conservation of Peruvian natural resources and ecosystems.
  
• Present alternatives for a non-destructive use of the national natural resources to the Peruvian rural and native communities.
  
• Diffusion of Peruvian natural and cultural values in order to reinforce national awareness for the importance of preserving the non-removable resources, as well as knowledge on native villages' traditions.
  
• Provide support to public and private companies on subjects related to environmental assessment and management of natural resources and ecosystems.
  
• Provide general information on Peruvian ecosystems as well as detailed information on their components, including species habitat information.

Since its foundation in October 1995, Peru Verde has supervised several conservation projects on Peruvian's Rain Forest and has successfully designed and completed a four-nation Flamingo Census, aimed to determine the most exact population number of the James and Andean Flamingos of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Currently, the Peru Verde Association owns shares of three ecotourism lodges located on the Peruvian Rain Forest, as well as 50% of a Lima-based travel agency, InkaNatura Travel, created to support the ecotourism lodge projects. InkaNatura Travel has an office in North America in Florida, USA, and two sub-agencies in Chiclayo (North Coast of Peru) and Cusco (SE of Peru, in the middle of the Andean chain). All profits acquired by the lodges and the travel agency are reverted entirely to support the projects supervised by the association.

Even though Peru Verde was formed only in October of 1995, its founders have a long history of involvement in conservation activities in Peru. Peru Verde is affiliated with the Cusco-based conservation group Selva Sur. This affiliate executes all of their projects in the southeastern region of Peru.

As Peru Verde expands they hope to find or to create an affiliate in each of the regions of Peru. Each affiliate will execute projects in their corresponding regions. The main office in Lima will raise money for projects in the interior of the country and the affiliates will carry out the projects under supervision of the main office (unless the affiliate obtained funds on its own).

Peru Verde has designed and implemented the following projects:

• Giant otter conservation through environmental education
  
• Environmental education program Mundo Natural
  
• Ecotourism lodge projects

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Office Address: Calle Garcilaso 265, interior patio 2nd floor, Cusco, Peru (just 2 minutes walk from the main Plaza de Armas). If you are coming to Cusco please bring a couple of second hand clothes, toys, school equipment and drop them off in our office. We will help distribute the items to people who really need them in small village schools and communities in the Andes. For more details visit our web page www.andeantravelweb.com/peru/projects  A map of our office can be found by clicking here.

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