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Our current projects comprise basic and applied research and involve people from different countries .
Research includes the preliminary inventory and monitoring of selected flora and fauna taxa, as well as ecological and sociological studies on the self-sustainable use of the tropical forest. This is being looked at through the application of different cultivation alternatives and selective resource extraction methods. Regeneration rates of different degree slopes cleared for agriculture are also being studied. Around WASAI Lodge & Research Center, the team will have easy access to a variety of habitats including seasonally inundated forest, upland forest, transitional forest, cleared area, small agricultural land, secondary forest, swamp and forest creek, whitewater river and lagoon.
The proximity of the research center to the local community provides opportunity for ethno botanical, resource management, and sociological investigation. Preliminary surveys on birds, mammals, herps, and trees are beginning in September of 1997. The region holds several world biodiversity records. The forest is tall and full of exceptional under-story flora.
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Preliminary surveys on birds and mammals on the small birds and mammals clay licks " collpas" around the lodge . |
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Set up the best trail system to the Loss Lake ( an unknown and still virgin oxbow lake 3 km from the lodge) |
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Preliminary survey on birds trees and mammals on the new trail of 15 km to the Chuncho clay lick . |
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Monitoring macaws in a rich "clay lick" ecosystem to support responsible tourism development |
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