Help community efforts to protect Peruvian Forests

With the support of Rainforest Partnership, the communities of San Antonio and Calabaza in the Colibri Cloudforest, in Junin Province, Peru, have been promoting ecotourism as alternative and sustainable way to create jobs for the two communities.  In order for the Colibri Cloudforest become an ecotourism destination,...

The community of San Antonio and Rainforest Partnership (RP) have collaborated in the construction of a hostel to provide more capacity for tourists and a sustainable source of income for the community.  The RP Peru team, along with community members, finalized a design and budget for the construction. The hostel...

During the first months of 2012, the Colibri Cloudforest Project has been focused on the construction of the Hostel in San Antonio, and the execution of different workshops with members of the community in topics like cooking and coffee growing. The community has been very interested in learning more about healthy ways of...

RP project coordinators Norma and Eusebio have worked with the communities of San Antonio and Calabaza to create associations of community members who are interested and dedicated to the ecotourism project. These community members will invest their time and efforts to work together in the continued success of the project....

Our dedicated volunteer Charles continued to work in the communities of San Antonio and Calabaza through the end of August. Within those 4 weeks, he managed to help Eusebio, the community leaders, and other community members to finish the bathroom in the temporary hostel, and start setting up the volunteer house in San...

We are pleased to announce we have officially named our project in the Pampa Hermosa region of Peru. "Colibri Cloudforest" encompasses all the different facets of our work there, from the eco-lodge and volunteer house to workshops and English classes. “Colibri” means hummingbird in Spanish, and the new name...

In the last three months, much progress has been made on our project in Pampa Hermosa, Peru. Back in January our new Lima-based Pampa Hermosa project coordinator Norma traveled to the Pampa Hermosa project site with Angie, a Peruvian architect student, to gather information about the ecolodge site in Calabaza for the...

In the last three months, much progress has been made on our project in Pampa Hermosa, Peru.  Back in October, the National University of Central Peru in Huancayo was granted a 40 year conservation concession in the Pampa Hermosa region where RP is working.  The concession involves a total of around 6,000...

Rainforest Partnership is excited to report on the continuing progress of Phase 1 of our eco-tourism project in Pampa Hermosa in Amazonian Peru. This initial phase focuses on making improvements to infrastructure for basic ecotourism facilities in the communities of Calabaza and San Antonio. With the help of our community...