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Amazon Basin
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Why Go?
The best-protected tract of the world's most biodiverse forest, the strange, sweltering, se-
ductive country-within-a-country that is Peru's Amazon Basin, is changing. Its sheer vast-
ness and impenetrability has long protected its indigenous communities and diverse wild-
life from external eyes. Tribes still exist here that have never had contact with outside civil-
ization. More plant types flourish in one rainforest hectare than in any European country,
and fauna is so fantastic it defies the most imaginative western sci-fi comic.
But as the 21st century slowly dawns on this enticing expanse of arboreal wilderness, ex-
ploitation of the rainforest's abundant natural resources threatens to irreversibly damage it.
The lush Peruvian Amazon offers phenomenal wildlife-spotting, forays into untamed forest
