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You will find information about Peru's natural environment as well as scientific activities related to Peru.

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• Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research

  http://www.wcupa.edu/aceer/
  Provides information about ACEER's activities in research, education and land husbandry in the Upper Amazon Basin, near Iquitos, where it owns 250,000 acres of rainforest.

• Amazon River Dolphins

  http://www.virtualexplorers.org/
  An extensive, well presented study on Amazon River Dolphins in the northern Peruvian Amazon, incorporating background information, field notes, graphics, maps and scientific research. Prepared by educators, students and grad students. Lesson plans available.

• CREES: Rainforest Education and Research Center

  http://www.crees-manu.org/
  Education and research programmes for improved sustainable natural resource management and co-operative conservation strategies in tropical environments. Based in Cusco.

• Information Technology in Peru

  http://www.jsbernstein.com/initeb/peru.htm
  Jeffrey Bernstein pulls together a broad, current picture of information technology and its impact on the country.

• International Potato Center - CIP

  http://www.cipotato.org/
  Seeking to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.

• Life and Times of J. Francis Macbride

  http://www.sacha.org/macbr/intro.htm
  Information about the U.S. botanist (1892-1976) and his ground-breaking Flora of Peru series. Excerpts from his travel journal with photos (1922-3).

• Lost Crops of the Inca

  http://books.nap.edu/books/030904264X/html/
  Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989), an online manuscript that covers research about exotic cereals, fruits, roots and tubers.

• Medical Geography and Cholera

  http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/warmup/cholera/cholera_f.html
  Makes a case study of the epidemic outbreak in 1991, with graphics and geographic information system data files. University of Colorado's Department of Geography

• Peruvian Cactus and Succulent Society

  http://cactus-mall.com/specs/
  Informs about activities of this non-profit association, including its annual publication and cacti-related research outside Peru.

• Plants of the Machiguenga

  http://manu.montana.com/
  A combination travelogue and scientific inquiry into medicinal uses of rain forest plants. Neurologist Ethan Russo examines the ethnobotany, anthropology, and wildlife of this Amazonian tribe in Parque Nacional del Manu.

• Rainforest Conservation Fund

  http://www.rainforestconservation.org/
  RCF informs about efforts to raise funds for and manage the 800,000 acre Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve near Iquitos.

• Spatial Hydrology of the Urubamba River System in Peru

  http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/CE397/urubamba/peru.htm
  Francisco Olivera (Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin) gives a didactic exercise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to examine an Andean watershed. Includes maps and graphics.

• The Living Edens: Manu, Peru's Hidden Rain Forest

  http://www.pbs.org/edens/manu/
  Supplements information in PBS program, including flora, fauna, history, links and classroom resources. The Manu Biosphere Reserve lies in the Peruvian Amazon.

• US Geological Survey P 1386-I

  http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/peru/intro.html
  A detailed study of glaciation in Peru by Benjamín Morales-Arnao with sections on the Cordillera Blanca on landsat imagery and Quelccaya Ice Cap by Stefan L. Hastenrath.

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