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Tambopata Reserve Zone, South-East Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Paul D. Stewart
Paul D. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Building 44, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK.
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Abstract

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The Tambopata Reserve Zone covers 55 sq km of tropical rain forest bordering the Tambopata River, a tributary of the upper Amazon. Set up by the Peruvian Government in 1977 to conserve an unusually diverse wildlife community, the reserve has already established a variety of world records for species numbers in vertebrate and invertebrate groups. It also protects a number of threatened species. The fact that the reserve exists at all is largely due to the implementation of a policy that has successfully integrated its conservation objectives with its commercial interests and applied science activities. The author, who worked as a naturalist guide and biologist on the reserve in 1984,1985 and 1986, discusses the importance of this enterprise.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 95 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1988

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