LETTER FROM THE AMAZON - Amazon Conservation Association

Letter from the Amazon January-March, 2010
About the Stations
CICRA is ACCA’s field station in the Amazon Basin.
Founded in 2000, CICRA has aided the research of
almost 200 projects. CICRA’s purpose is to protect the
world’s richest forest by facilitating research and thus a
better understanding of this fantastic system’s function;
promoting conservation and environmental education;
creating space for dialogue between conservation
ideologies and local communities with the aim to
integrate human activities; and the protection and
appreciation of the forest in a sustainable manner.
Aerial view of CICRA. Photo by WWF
Note from the editor:
Dear reader,
Wayqecha is ACCA’s cloud forest field station founded
in 2006. Since its inception, Wayqecha has hosted
numerous scientific investigations. Wayqecha is
managed out of ACCA’s Cuzco office and seeks to
conserve the fragile cloud forest ecosystem while at the
same time fostering community relations.
A view of Wayqecha. Photo by Adrian Tejedor
We hope that you have enjoyed this second “Letter from the Amazon”. We certainly enjoyed writing it and
hope that you feel a little closer to us, the interesting and thoughtful research occurring, and the overarching
work we realize in our stations.
Until next time,
Executive editor: Sarah Federman Princeton in Latin America, CICRA
Editor: Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica—ACCA
Special thanks to the contributors and to Carmen Giusti for information on the work going on at Wayqecha and to
Miguel Moran, Nigel Pitman, and Amy Rosenthal, and Megan MacDowell for their helpful and insightful comments
during the editing of this letter. Contact us at: communicaciones@conservacionamazonica.org visit us at: www.amazonconservation.org
and www.acca.org.pe
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