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Amazon Rainforest
Regarded as the third largest environmental NGO in Brazil, IPÊ, Instituto
de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Ecologic Research Institute), has operated for
8 years in the Amazon region, more specifically in Anavilhanas, on the lower
Negro River (in 2003, UNESCO declared the region a Natural Heritage Site).
The projects IPÊ carries out have basically two purposes: biodiversity conservation
and social-environmental sustainability of the riverside population. For
these and other reasons, IPÊ has put into practice, for instance, Project
Manatee, which not only implements a conservation program of that species
in its habitat as also sensitizes the people living around Anavilhanas'
Ecological Station to fight poaching. When it comes to ecotourism, IPÊ offers
a boat, Maíra I, which allows for the performance of social-environmental
diagnoses and also offers environmental education activities. All that to
keep untouched the life and landscape of that region, one of the richest
in the planet, from an ecological standpoint.
Hightlights:
- The vastness of the Amazon Forest and its biodiversity
- Private cruises on the Negro and Tapajós Rivers
- Seeing up close and in practice IPÊ's (Ecologic Research Institute) social-environmental
projects
- Knowing the Amazon's riverside communities
- The labyrinth of islets forming Anavilhanas Archipelago