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Manu Wildlife Center is an ecotourism project that saves and showcases spectacularly-rich rainforest originally scheduled for timber extraction and market meat hunting.
The Center is located in Manu Province, just east of Manu National Park and along the long northern border of the 1,000,000-acre Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR), a national protected area that boasts the largest uninhabited rainforest region in Manu Province.
Ironically, the Manu Park has many more Indians living throughout it than does the enormous ACR wilderness. The lodge staff protects the extensive forests of MWC and ARC which lie along the largest uninhabited section of a major river in all of Amazonia. |
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| The lodge, which has 24 double-occupancy bungalows with hot-water showers and flush toilets, overlooks the Madre de Dios River. The primary attractions for visitors are the world’s largest known Tapir clay lick, the world’s most visited large macaw and parrot clay lick, two large oxbow lakes harboring families of Giant Otters, two canopy platforms at 100 and 130 feet above the ground, and 10 species of monkeys. In December 2002, Condé Nast Traveler Magazine scoured the entire Amazon and concluded that the Center was "the most intense wildlife experience in Amazonia.” |
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