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Margie H. Davis, B.A., M.A. Ed. Leadership

Grand Haven, MI 49417

 

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TAMBOPATA

Clear mountain streams rush down through the steep folds of the Andean foothills, spilling into a wild, untamed and uninhabited rainforest know as “Tambopata.” It is a diverse wilderness of massive hardwoods whose mighty buttressed trunks support the forest canopy, a little know realm of plants and animals. Located in the Amazon basin of southern Peru, near the Bolivian border, Tambopata is part of a 2.21 million-acre watershed earmarked for national park status. It is situated within the vast 3.7 million acre Tambopata-Candamo Reserve Zone, a region composed of lowland, montane, cloud, and rivervine forests surrounding palm swamps and bamboo thickets. Tambopata is an ecological mélange. Here, exist an estimated 1,200 species of birds – fully one-sixth of the world’s total. In addition, 200 species of mammals, 90 frog species, 1,200 butterfly species and 10,000 species of higher plants are protected in the reserve.

 

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Tambopata Research Center

(I’m front row; in shorts and cap)

 

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Weighing & measuring

 

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The magnificent Macaw Clay Lick at Tambopata

 

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