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Science & Discovery

Using the latest science to guide our mission.

Science guides our conservation approach. What does that mean?

It means that we take the best theories, practices, experiments, and research and apply it all to work being done in the field, making concrete and measurable changes to how conservation is done.

We use science to inform projects on the ground, promote rational discourse on tough policy questions, and educate and inspire the next generation of conservationists.

Putting Science at the Forefront of All We Do

Managing the tropic’s premier research stations

Our research stations in Peru and Bolivia are hubs for research, science and discovery.

Every year they host hundreds of scientist and students from all over the world, conduct biological monitoring, and provide workshops and educational opportunities for local communities. An average of 30 research projects are hosted at our stations each year, covering a wide array of subjects such as amphibians, primates, birds, ants, orchids, butterflies, and climate change.

In addition, we host prestigious universities from all over the world who want to conduct field courses on site, allowing hundreds of students to learn about the Amazon using a hands-on approach.

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Advancing ornithological science: Los Amigos Bird Observatory

Our Los Amigos Research Station and Ecolodge in Peru supports an incredible diversity of birds—nearly 600 species representing one-third of the total bird diversity of the country.

As stewards of their habitat, we have a responsibility and opportunity to better understand this bird life, and enhance conservation efforts among birdwatchers, young conservationists and scientists that visit us year after year. To that end, we have launched the Los Amigos Bird Observatory.

The Bird Observatory will leverage this incredible wildlife diversity and the facilities managed by Amazon Conservation in order to spread awareness, build capacity, and enhance conservation efforts among birdwatchers, researchers, students, and conservationists.

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Supporting ABERG scientists in researching climate change

For over a decade, we have hosted high-profile researchers from ABERG, the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group at our Peruvian research station.

This group of scientists is using the Andes-Amazon gradient where our stations are located as a laboratory for understanding global climate change. Their critical research is helping shape what we know about climate change and how to fight it.

Impact Highlights

10,000 new beetles

Discovered at or around our research stations by ABERG researcher Caroline Chaboo

554 studies

Published from research conducted at our research stations

Over 240 scholarships

Awarded to date to young biologists to conduct field research

“I was able to discover two beetle species new to science thanks to Amazon Conservation’s scholarship for young scientists. It helped broaden my knowledge of the diversity of beetles as I studied them in the field. I’m excited to leave my mark on the scientific community.”

– Maryzender Rodriguez, Peruvian biologist and Amazon Conservation scholarship recipient

The Latest from the Amazon

Supporting Forest-Based Economies Through Research at our Amazon Fruit and Climate Change Observatory

In January 2022, we launched the Observatory of Amazonian Fruits and Climate Change in the Amazonian department of Pando, Bolivia. The Observatory is the culmination of a 10-month project in collaboration with local Bolivian organizations such as the Inter-Institutional Platform for Articulation of Productive Complexes of Amazonian Fruits (PICFA) and the Departamental Federation of Açai […]

Scaling Across the Wider Amazon with New Partners in Ecuador and Venezuela

Thanks to our strategic collaboration with organizations Fundación EcoCiencia in Ecuador and SOS Orinoco in Venezuela, we saw two great successes with reports from our Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Program (MAAP), that resulted in on-the-ground action taken against illegal mining in the Amazon. Together with EcoCiencia, we published a report revealing the alarming illegal […]

Our Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) featured in Washington Post

On December 6, 2022, the Washington Post published an article detailing intense illegal mountain-top mining in the supposedly protected national park of Yapacana in the Venezuelan Amazon. The authors, Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero, and Janice Kai Chen, explain that Cerro Yapacana, revered as a sacred site by indigenous groups in this region of Venezuela […]

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