Project Amazonas

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Although about 25% of all drugs are derived from rainforest ingredients, scientists have only examined the medicinal properties of around 1% of tropical plants.

A typical four square mile patch of rainforest may contain as many as 1,500 flowering plant species, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.

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

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

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Cover the operational costs of the hospital boat for a day

Project Amazonas boat, the Tucunare, on the shoreline.

Project Amazonas has the only regularly operating hospital boat in the Peruvian Amazon. Our current boat, the Tucunare, provides basic medical care for six to eight thousand people annually who would otherwise have little to no access to healthcare.

Your donation will fund a mission to serve the communities along the Peruvian Amazon. For a trip with ten medical personnel and six crew aboard, daily operating costs for a journey to a remote river area are about $1000 per day including fuel, food, crew salary, and medical supplies.

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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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