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About Rainforests: By the Numbers
Statistics and important information regarding rainforest weather, area coverage, animal species, vegetation, medicines and food.

Activities and Weather
Activities and weather tips for Amazon jungle tours

DarAnne's Peru Travel Journal
We're travelers, just like you. Read DarAnne's Peru travel journal - it offers a personal and intimate look at what you could encounter on your own Peru tour.

Dave & Val’s Ecuadorian Adventures, 2008
Adventure Life travelers, Dave and Val LaHart, share a travel tale about their experiences during our Wildlife Odyssey trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon and Galapagos Islands.

Delay of Pipeline Construction
January 2003, Press Release: Delay of pipeline construction in Ecuador's Amazon stands in the way of Citigroup loan guarantees

Ecuador Rainforest Adventure
Travelogue from an Adventure Life Ecuador jungle tour. Chronicles the traveler's stay at Nativo Lodge and experience canoeing through the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Health Tips for Going to the Jungle
Health advice for Amazon tours, including advice for avoiding traveler's diarrhea and malaria, as well as recommended vaccinations and boosters.

Indigenous People
A 'Q and A' session from the Rainforest Action Network to help teach children about the indigenous people of the Amazon and other rainforests

Jungle Packing Tips
Essentials and useful items for your Amazon jungle trip

Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest
A look at the botanical medical treasures that exist within the Amazon and other tropical rainforests. Details on how they are put to use in the Western world and a glimpse at how these treasures are being threatened

My Dream Come True
One traveler describes her two week trip to Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon.

Observing Macaws
The best way to capture great pictures of macaws at Tambopata's Clay Lick in the Amazon

Sharma's Peru Travel Journal
We're travelers just like you! Read Sharma's Peru travel journal and about her adventures on our Machu Picchu Pilgrimage and Lake Titicaca tour.

South American Packing Essentials
Packing advice, including a list of recommended essentials for trips to South America

Tambopata Conservation: A Letter from Charles Munn
A letter from Charles Munn, Senior Conservation Zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, discussing the nature of the tropical forest around Tambopata.

Tambopata National Reserve
A short description about Tambopata National Reserve in Peru

Tambopata Research Center
The Tambopata Research Center is a spartan yet comfortable 13 bedroom lodge built to accommodate Peru travelers and researchers alike while protecting the adjacent macaw clay lick.

The Peruvian Amazon – It's for the Birds
Bird watching tips for first-timers, plus information on species that reside in the Manu and Tambopata regions of the Peruvian Amazon

The World's Largest Macaw Lick
Information about Peruvian Amazon tours to the world's largest clay lick. Birds and Macaws feed daily off of this clay lick. It is a mysterious yet vital part of their diet.

Tropical Rainforest Animals
Questions-and-answers on the unique animals that reside in the tropical rainforest, including the Amazon. Nearly half of all earth's animal species live in the rainforest, including monkeys, toucans, jaguars and insects

Two National Parks Declared Off Limits to Drilling, Mining
Efforts to protect the Amazon, including how Adventure Life Amazon tours benefit the Cuyabeno reserve

What Can I Do?
Seven steps you can take to help save the Amazon and the world's rainforests

Amazon Articles & Information :
The Peruvian Amazon – It's for the Birds | My Dream Come True | Dave & Val’s Ecuadorian Adventures, 2008 | Two National Parks Declared Off Limits to Drilling, Mining | South American Packing Essentials | Ecuador Rainforest Adventure | Tambopata Conservation: A Letter from Charles Munn | The World's Largest Macaw Lick | Health Tips for Going to the Jungle | Activities and Weather | Jungle Packing Tips | Tambopata National Reserve | Observing Macaws | What Can I Do? | About Rainforests: By the Numbers | Indigenous People | Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest | Tropical Rainforest Animals | Delay of Pipeline Construction | Tambopata Research Center | DarAnne's Peru Travel Journal | Sharma's Peru Travel Journal