Daily Archives: December 20, 2017

Cocoa Processing Facility Built

  In 2017, at the Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve project in Peru, the first phase of the construction of the cocoa processing facility was completed. The building of this facility is a critical milestone for the project and one of the key mechanisms for addressing the drivers of deforestation in the region. Located in the ‘buffer zone’ around…

The “Amazoncam” Research Project

Throughout 2017, the “AmazonCam” research project at the Tambopata-Bahuaja Biodiversity Reserve project installed more than 100 camera traps to monitor wildlife. A key aim of the Tambopata project is to facilitate biodiversity research in the protected area, which, as some of the most pristine primary forest in the world, is an internationally recognised ‘biodiversity hotspot’. A camera…