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Friday, August 01, 2003
Amazon Rainforest Conservation Center Field Report
The ARCC is open now and operating a small number of groups with absolute success. Wildlife sightings have increased since, 1. construction was finished two years ago, 2. protection of wildlife in our reserve has taken hold, 3. the extensive trail system is complete, and 4. our new paddle catamaran allows hours of extended lake touring in comfortable chairs to view otters, caiman, birds, monkeys and other wildlife from the water.
A recent group this summer recorded incredible statistics: 41 separate mammal sightings including 13 different species. Among them we saw 7species of monkey including 13 black spider monkey sightings! The otters too are guaranteed on a daily basis. With the catamaran we can watch them for literally hours a day, every day. We have 4 groups of white-lipped peccaries in the vicinity of the lodge, a group of 30, 100, 300+ and 400+!!! We are having problems with them eating our garden when they swarm through and under the lodge!! We find fresh jaguar tracks on the trails almost every day. We have a male and female that use our new trail system! We have had sightings in the forest and just last week a group watched a jaguar on the river at night for 10 minutes at 10 metres! We have good clay lick viewing now with special blinds set up including groups of up to 20 blue-headed macaws, a rarity in Tambopata and Manu. We also have an excellent bamboo habitat trail where we recently saw the rufous-headed woodpecker and red-billed scythebill. Venemos snakes are rare (thanks to the huge peccary population) and we have seen tapir, sloths, anteaters etc. like everywhere else too.
