LOS AMIGOS RESEARCH CENTER MADRE DE DIOS, PERU

Scientific activity in the Amazon is soaring as researchers come to appreciate the importance of the world's largest tropical wilderness to the global climate and carbon budget. But Amazonia's scientific infrastructure is still poorly developed, and scientists working here depend on a handful of tiny, poorly funded field stations, laboratories, and research centers. It's no surprise that most ecological research in the American tropics is still done in small fragments of forest in Central America, where field stations are better established.

The Los Amigos Biological Station was built on the conviction that the greatest forest on Earth deserves the best research centers in the world. Picture a Scripps Oceanographic Institute for the Amazon and you'll have an idea of what we're aiming for: a large-scale, high-volume, high-tech research center capable of supercharging science and training in Amazonian wilderness.

Los Amigos is already the most active research station in the Amazon. We're now building partnerships with other leaders in Amazonian science and training, improving infrastructure, and establishing an endowment for the station and its 150,000-ha of adjacent forest. Want to help make Amazonian science as strong as it deserves to be? Come work with us!

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"At Los Amigos Conservation Concession, a 360,000-acre tract of wilderness, [the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation] has helped create one of the world's pre-eminent tropical research stations. Wildlife biologists and other scientists from the United States, Peru and elsewhere carry out elaborate research studies, aided by expensive infrastructure such as a wireless Internet network over the jungle to allow remote data collection and transmission." -San Francisco Chronicle, 19 November 2006

Winner of a 2006
NSF infrastructure
grant!

LOS AMIGOS RESEARCH CENTER MADRE DE DIOS, PERU

Winner of a 2006 NSF infrastructure grant!

Winner of a 2006
NSF infrastructure
grant!