Project Amazonas

A non-political, non-sectarian NGO working since 1994 to serve the people of the Amazon and conserve the rainforest.

More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified as having anti-cancer properties. Most of these have yet to be clinically tested, however.

One in five of all bird species in the world can be found in the Amazon Basin. At our four field stations in the Peruvian Amazon, over 550 species of birds have been recorded!

Every day, an area of rainforest equivalent to 86,400 football fields is chopped down worldwide. The Peruvian rainforest has largely escaped this wide-scale destruction. Help us to keep it that way!

Before European contact in 1542, it is estimated that as many as 10 million people lived in the Amazon. Today there are less than 200,000 indigenous people. Almost one hundred distinct tribes have disappeared since the early 1900’s due to introduced diseases, persecution, and assimiliation.

The Amazon covers 2.5 million miles, about the size of the USA west of the Mississippi.

Each minute the Amazon River discharges 3.4 million gallons of water into the Atlantic, 14 times the discharge of the Mississippi.

Although rainforests cover less than 2% of the Earth's surface area, they are home to 50% of the Earth's plant and animal species.

Rainforests act as a planetary thermostat by regulating and moderating temperatures and weather patterns. By absorbing carbon and sequestering CO2, rainforest help slow global climate change.

During the rainy season the Amazon River overflows its banks and can extend into the forest for a width of 25 miles in some places. Where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean, the Amazon is over 200 miles wide!

Over one fifth of the world's fresh water is contained in the Amazon basin's rivers, streams, and tributaries.

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Provide school children with toothbrushes

Inadequate oral health care can lead to life threatening infections. Poor oral hygiene has also been linked to serious systemic illnesses, including diabetes, stroke, hypertension, myocardial infarction, and aspiration pneumonia. The World Health Organization has noted that the primary determinants of poor oral health are “poor living conditions, low education level, as well as lack of traditions supporting oral health”. The rural communities of the Peruvian Amazon are no exception. On our medical expeditions, the demand for extractions of rotten teeth is always high. In fact, the dentist is usually the busiest person on the trip.

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Project Amazonas boat, the Tucunare.

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Recent News

Students for Environmental Action aid the Amazon

The "Students for Environmental Action" (SEA) club at the University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA), recently raised funds to help further the construction of a steel-hull medical boat in the Amazon.

Amazing Frog Calendar - 2010

Project Amazonas frogs featured on 2010 calendar!

A 2010 Amazing Frogs calendar by photographer Michael Turco features some of the frogs of the Project Amazonas field stations.

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