There are several organizations working actively to protect the Reserved Zone, among them:

World Wildlife Fund

1250 24th St. NW
Washington DC 20036
phone: 202-293-4800
www.worldwildlife.org

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has generously funded guard posts, guard training, outboard motors, patrol canoes, and cars within the park, and more recently, efforts at environmental education and alleviation of rural poverty in small communities near the park's inhabited southeastern and southern extremes. WWF's funding has been essential in making Manu one of the few seriously protected parks in tropical South America.

Wildlife Conservation Society

General Director William Conway
148th St. and Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY10460 New York USA
Tel: 718-220-5155 Fax: 718-220-3644 275
www.wcs.org

Headquartered at the Bronx Zoo, the WCS has worked internationally for over a century to save wildlife and wild lands. Around Manu, WCS is working on community-based conservation, land tenure, and legislation issues, as well as macaw ecology.

Centro para el Desarrollo del Indigena Amazonico (CEDIA)

Pasaje Bonifacio 116
La Perla, Callao
phone/fax: 011 51 1 4204340
e-mail: cedia+@amauta.rcp.pe.net

The anthropologists from CEDIA have titled almost 9 million hectares to lowland Indians in the rain forests of Peru, of which 500,000 hectares have been titled to 30 communities of Machiguenga Indians.

Friends of the Peruvian Rainforest (FPR)

President: Roger Pasquier
668 Public Ledger Building
Philadelphia PA 19107
phone: 215-923-3641
fax: 215-923-5535

A non-profit conservation group, FPR supports no staff, but raises support for the work of Selva Sur and CEDIA around Manu.

Rainforest Alliance

Executive Director: Daniel R. Katz
Rainforest Alliance
65 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
phone: 212-677-1900
fax: 212-677-2187
e-mail: rainforest-alliance@ra.org
www.rainforest-alliance.org

An international nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to tropical forest conservation. Visit their Web site and take an interactive jungle journey, and learn about their conservation programs.

InkaNatura Association

President: Mariana Valqui
AP 18-0404
Lima 18 PERU
e-mail: valqui@aol.com

The association directly involves local families and communities in conservation through their participation in wildlife research and eco-lodge ownership.

Affiliates to Inkanatura Association:

Inka Natura/Selva Sur

Casilia 1200
Cusco PERU
phone: 084 240911
e-mail: acss+@aamauta.rcp.pe.net
www.inkanatura.com

Selva Sur has purchased more than 11,000 acres of intact Andean cloud forest on the amazing birdwatching road adjacent to the Manu park. The creation of this private reserve, which is bisected by what has been called "the best birdwatching road in the world," has been funded by the Inca Group of companies of Arequipa, Peru, the World Parks Endowment, Friends of the Peruvian Rain Forest, the Weeden Foundation, and WCS.

 

InkaNatura Travel

Av. Benavides 3634 de 301 Surco
Lima PERU
e-mail: inkanatur@chavin.rcp.net.pe
phone: 011 51 1 2713735
www.inkanatura.com

and

17957 SW 111 St
Brooker FL 32622
InkaNatura USA
e-mail: inatur1@ibm.net
phone: 352-485-2514
www.inkanatura.com

Owned 50/50 by InkaNatura Association and Selva Sur, INT is the only non-profit travel agency that books natural history itineraries in Peru. All net proceeds are channeled directly into conservation.