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.
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A 2010 Amazing Frogs calendar by photographer Michael Turco features some of the frogs of the Project Amazonas field stations.
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Florida International University (Miami, FL) students spent 4 weeks in the Amazon in June and July 2009 as part of the second annual Amazon Program offered through The Honors College at FIU. Based at the Madre Selva Biological Station, the FIU students engaged in service learning projects at the field station and with local communities.
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After extensive search in Peru, Colombia and Brazil, we have found a suitable candidate boat in Iquitos for this purpose at a sale price of $20,000. The vessel is only 2 years old, and the hull planks are a solid 1.5" to 2" thick with a barge base construction which means that even through the vessel is slightly shorter than the Tucunare, the amount of floor space would be about double that of our now-retired vessel, and the draft of the boat would be even less, allowing us to enter shallower water.
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Project Amazonas and AidJoy join forces to promote positive growth in the Peruvian Amazon.
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