"This book highlights the enormous biodiversity of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) and the critical role this protected area plays in the conservation of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru. It represents the communication story of the work conducted in the ACR by researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and their Peruvian counterparts. Over the course of three years, scientists and local experts had the extraordinary opportunity to collect data to determine potential impacts of an exploratory ...
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"This book highlights the enormous biodiversity of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) and the critical role this protected area plays in the conservation of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru. It represents the communication story of the work conducted in the ACR by researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and their Peruvian counterparts. Over the course of three years, scientists and local experts had the extraordinary opportunity to collect data to determine potential impacts of an exploratory gas platform on selected animal and plant groups. As a result, several new species have been described and various papers have been published in scientific journals. In the first part of this book, we present an overview of Madre de Dios, the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve and the ecosystem services provided by Amazonian tropical forests. Next, we developed diversity chapters that portrait a sample of the unique birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, arthropods and plants studied by the researchers. In each chapter, we provide information on the natural history of each taxonomic group and the description of the investigation conducted by researchers in the ACR. The study site comprised the surrounding areas of an exploratory gas platform in the premontane forests of Amarakaeri. In the last part of the book, we present the challenges and opportunities the region of Madre de Dios has. We highlight the critical role the ACR plays in the conservation of the landscape of Madre de Dios and its role as a keystone to ensure the connectivity of the Vilcabamba-Amboro Conservation Corridor (VACC). We portrait the main threats to the area and present a vision for this region's future. The vision is the result of a study conducted by Smithsonian researchers that has been submitted for journal publication and for a policy report"--
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