Asociacion Fauna Forever (AFF)
Asociacion Fauna Forever is a Peruvian conservation organisation based in Puerto Maldonado, managing a number of research and conservation projects, courses and workshops.
Fauna Forever Tambopata (FFT)
Fauna Forever Tambopata is a long-term wildlife and ecotourism monitoring project based in and around the Tambopata National Reserve and Bahuaja Sonene National Park in the Amazon rainforest of south-eastern Peru. The Tambopata region, encompassed by these two protected areas (Pas) and their respective buffer zones, lies on the eastern edge of the Tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot, arguably the most biodiverse region on Earth and known for its wilderness qualities. The project, which was established 1996, is managed by a dedicated team of Peruvian and international conservation biologists who are committed to researching and conserving Peru's biodiversity by furnishing PA managers and other rainforest users, such as ecotourism lodges, with good quality data about the temporal and spatial changes in the population structure of species and the magnitude of human impacts on species. The taxonomic groups studied include mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects (butterflies and dung beetles), and plants. FFT is achieved only through the funding and hard work of volunteers from all over the world
FotoForever (FoF)
FotoForever is a series of not-for-profit rainforest-based photography workshops that are set up to run alongside the Fauna Forever Tambopata project (FFT, see above). The workshops, which are led by award winning wildlife photographers Jon Lewis and George Bareham, are aimed at training the growing army of field biologists and amateur wildlife photographers in all the necessary techniques for them to take good quality and memorable images in the humid, photographically-challenging rainforest. The workshops will also provide images to be used by AFF and other local conservation organisations in the production of wildlife field guides and environmental education materials.
Bird Ringing Forever (BRF)
Bird Ringing Forever is a series of bird mist-netting and ringing/banding courses managed jointly by Fauna Forever and the Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), a Peruvian not-for-profit organization, that are centred on the Tambopata area. The courses are aimed at training the growing number of amateur and professional ornithologists in mist-netting, bird handing, ringing and identification techniques, and as a means of collecting valuable bird population data for inclusion in the wildlife databases of FFT and CORBIDI, alike.
