Wildlife Uncovered

 

This trip takes you through Manu on a wonderful wildlife experience. Led by specialist

and knowledgeable guides you will experience the best that Manu has to offer in terms of birds and mammals.  This tour has been designed to take in the specific locations to maximize the chances of seeing some of the incredible species within the Manu Biosphere and National Park.  Pricing from £2,600 per person.

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The Amazon Birder

 

This trip is for keen birder’s and is arguably one of the best. Manu is teeming with birdlife

and offers the chance of viewing some of the most unusual species, many of which are extremely rare or endangered. Manu boasts huge numbers of bird species and this itinerary only touches on some of the many species you might see! Pricing from £2,030 per person. 

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Manu Explorer

 

This trip allows you to really relax and experience the beauty of the National Park’s

virgin forests.  Knowing that by spending more time on the trails, rivers, lakes and clay-licks increases the chance of spotting the many rare species found within the National Park.  Pricing from £1,970 per person.

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The Legacy Traveller

 

This tour is a guided conservation tour for those wanting to be more hands on

with the conservation research and community initiatives of the crees foundation – this is what you might call an Amazon wildlife experience with a twist! Get up close and personal to some of the more incredible species of the rainforest learning first hand from scientific researchers working at the Manu Learning Centre. Pricing from £1,120 per person.

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The Manu Classic

 

This is a wildlife experience for those short of time yet covers all the essentials of a trip to the

Amazon to view some of it’s incredible species: Traverse the Andes through the Cloud forest, see the Cock of The Rock bird, and observe hundreds of birds feeding on the river banks. Spend time on the trails with conservation experts from the crees foundation, see spider monkeys and other mammals and learn about the local culture.

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For more Peru Amazon Tours visit the crees foundation website.

Please note the crees foundation reserves the right to change listed pricing anytime at their discretion.  Please contact them directly to confirm.

White-leaf tree frog

 

This arboreal (tree climbing) species is found residing on plants alongside permanent

ponds surrounding the Manu Learning Centre. The males call year round for females. They lay up to 600 eggs on vegetation overhanging ponds. When the eggs hatch, the offspring fall into the water in order to continue their development as tadpoles.

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Manu poison frog

 

This medium size poison dart frog is found throughout the Manu Learning Centre reserve.

They get their name from the toxic alkaloids they secrete on their skin in order to be distasteful to predators. Males of these species show remarkable parental care, carrying hatched tadpoles on their backs to nearby slow moving streams in order to release them.

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Hoatzin

 

This species is thought to be one of the oldest bird lineages remaining on earth, largely

owing to their young bearing a remarkable resemblance to archeoptryx (the oldest recorded bird species – 150 million years old).  The juveniles have claws on their wings which they use to climb trees before they have the ability to fly. Hoatzins can be found living and breeding at the Manu Learning Center’s wetland.

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Sunbittern

 

This solitary species uses its stunning ornate plumage as a warning signal when

threatened and in courtship to secure a mate. Whilst it is typically found along streams and rivers throughout the Manu biosphere reserve, it can often be observed in and around the Manu Learning Center’s garden.

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Heliconius butterfly

 

This butterfly uses its striking colouration as a warning signal of their cyanide toxins for

potential predators. They acquire their toxins from the passion vines (Passifloraceae) which they feed on as caterpillars. Many other non-toxic butterfly species try to mimic the colours and patterns of Heliconius numata in order to get the benefits of being avoided by predators without needing to consume toxic cyanide-containing plants.

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Clear-winged butterfly

 

This species is often found fluttering up and down the primary forest trails of the

Manu Learning Center’s reserve. They have transparent wings which makes them very difficult to spot whilst flying or feeding. Males attract females through the production of pheromones which they gather from the plants they visit as adults.

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Brown Titi Monkey

 

The more often heard than seen, Titi Monkeys are frequently encountered in and

around the Manu Learning Centre’s lodge. They move very little, preferring to stay in specific trees eating fruits, seeds leaves and insects. As they are very territorial, rival groups frequently signal their location through loud vocal duets between the monogamous male and female.

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Black-capped squirrel Monkey

 

Whilst they are not the largest primate found here at the Manu Learning Centre (that

honour goes to the Black-faced spider monkey), these primates certainly form the largest groups – these highly sociable monkeys can often be found in groups numbering well over 50 individuals. The squirrel monkeys are frequently observed seen making daring leaps across the Manu Learning Centre’s streams whilst foraging for their favoured nuts and seeds.

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Amazon Racerunner 

 

These medium to large sized lizards are resident in and around the Manu Learning

Centre’s lodge, where they bask in the sunlight and hunt for insects under and around the buildings. Their bright green colouration is thought to provide them with camouflage against aerial predators. (Ameiva Ameiva) 

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Common Peru Blind Snake

 

Whilst this beautiful snake is apparently common within the Manu Learning Centre’s

reserve, you will have to be truly eagle-eyed in order to spot one. This tiny species rarely grows beyond 20cm long and can be easily mistaken for a worm. The common blind snake lives within the leaf litter, only occasionally emerging to the surface whilst looking for food or when disturbed.

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Other Peru Wildlife

Three Toed Sloth, Andean cock-of-the-rock, Macaw parrots, Spotted Hummingbird, Spider Monkey, Rufous Crested Coquette, Masked Trogon, Woolly Monkey, Jaguars, Caiman,, Monkey Frog, Giant river otters, Ocelot, South American Tapir, White Lipped Peccary, Capybara, Caiman, Glass Frog, Monkey Frog, Salamander, Amazonian Sheep Frog, Twist Necked Turtle, Coral Pipe Snake, Amazonian Sheep Frog, Clown Tree Frog, Yellow Footed Tortoise, Horned Forest Dragon, Golden Tegu, Rainbow Boa, Amazon Tree Boa, Acuatic Coral Snake, Western Striped Forest Pit Viper, Fer-de-Lance, Amazon Bushmaster, Orchid Bea, Katydid, Leaf Cutter Ants, Leaf Mimicking Mantis, Tailess Whip Scorpion, Emerald Toucanet, Endangered Blue Headed Macaw, Scarlet Macae, Crested Eagle, Harpey Eagle, Plumbeous Kite, Spix Guan, White-eyed Parakeet, Colbalt-winged Parakeet

All of the crees foundation tours have a central focus on conservation.

Run by the Crees Foundation, the tours are led by conservation experts running ongoing scientific research and community initiatives in Manu.

The scientific researchers monitor the species at two sites, one is the buffer zone of the reserve at the Manu Learning Centre and the other at Romero in the heart of the National Park. Results generate important knowledge about the value, and potential value of biodiversity, ecosystem services and socio-economic initiatives for local communities, businesses and the Peruvian government.

The knowledge generated by their research fuels the foundation’s Enterprise Programme that supports local community members to develop sustainable business models, achieving the creation of 10 new sustainable enterprises in 2015 through approximately USD$50,000 of micro-finance loans. This programme provides the capital, training and resources local entrepreneurs need to form and grow a sustainable business that transform local resources in a sustainable way.

It works one-to-one with local community members under the leadership of a local entrepreneur and sustainable visionary, Reynaldo Ochoa. He accompanies community members through all the early stages and struggles of building their business models. It engages in mirco-farming (biogardens), sustainable agroforestry, ecotourism and ecosystem service business models.

Crees foundation’s work with the Peruvian government helps build environmental education into formal curriculum at secondary school level. As well as this, provides an education outreach programme that takes local students out into the forest with biologists, tour guides and sustainability experts. They also work with local technical institutes in course development and practical training as well providing the wider civic society fun and engaging information about the value of biodiversity, its role in ecosystems and how it could be managed sustainably.