¡NPC se siente orgulloso de anunciar que hemos cumplido 1 año! El 22 de junio del 2008 fue el primer aniversario desde que la organización fue registrada legalmente.El pasado año ha sido un desafío pero todos hemos conseguido superarlo y son muchos los logros que queremos dar a conocer:

Noga y Sam han logrado fortalecer la relación con la comunidad de La Esperanza, donando una oficina y una vivienda a NPC.
Hemos creado satisfactoriamente viveros con árboles nativos, los cuales planeamos plantar a comienzos de la próxima temporada lluviosa tardía en 2008.
Un censo de mamíferos focalizado en el mono choro de cola amarilla ha empezado en el área de La Esperanza, donde esperamos crear una reserva.
La Ronda del distrito de Amazonas ha firmado un acuerdo en el cual, a partir de ahora en adelante, la caza de animales por placer y para su comercialización está prohibido.
NPC está apoyando la creación de una reserva forestal de 2000ha en la comunidad de Coroshas.
Las campañas de educación ambiental en San Martín, Amazonas y Lima han sido establecidas y se están llevando a cabo por Yunkawasi, financiadas por NPC.
Una cooperativa ha sido establecida en La Esperanza con el fin de permitir a la comunidad comenzar con la venta de su artesanía y el manejo de los fondos recibidos del turismo.
¡Nuestros primeros turistas han llegado a La Esperanza! Ellos pudieron seguir grupos de monos choro de cola amarilla en su hábitat natural y visitar las cuevas cercanas, de elevado interés arqueológico.
Asistentes de campo y guías turísticos han sido entrenados y nos encontramos en proceso de obtener fondos para crear un jardín botánico, un reclamo más para añadir en el área.
Nuestra solicitud fue dirigida a “Charity Commission” para convertirnos en “UK Registered Charity”, lo cual esperamos que suceda este mismo año.
Hemos podido dar la bienvenida a Brooke, Vicki y Sergio el pasado año.
NPC necesita más fondos para los años que siguen; así que por favor, no olvides nuestro botón de “donación” de la web si deseas contribuir para continuar con este valioso trabajo. Y por favor, ¡¡transmite esta información a otros!!

¡¡Muchas gracias por tu continuo apoyo!!

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 Great news for Corosha: With our help the community of Corosha has won the SPDA contest for new private and communal reserves. This means they have $5000 to get specialists to research the forest and register their 2000 ha reserve. Of course we will do everything to help them and hopefully by the end of next year there will be a new reserve to help secure the future of the yellow tailed woolly monkey.

Dr. Anthony Di Fiore and PhD student Christopher Schmitt of New York Universities Molecular Anthropology department came to visit the project and see the monkeys. They also collected fecal samples, for genetic research, from the many groups they encountered, actually managing to collect more samples then expected. We are looking at ways that NYU can collaborate in the project for the future. Hopefully students will come to do thesis research here very soon.

We heard about monkeys that needed rescuing in the city of Neueva Cajamarca and went to check what was going on there. We found a terrible situation, a few ¨mini zoos¨ which had many animals kept in terrible conditions, a circus with a performing spider monkey and the market full with hundreds of wild animal parts such as tapir and bear feet, toucan beaks, dear meat and more, all of which are totally illegal in Peru.

The Nueva Cajamarca police, headed by Major Cesar Ocaña Rivero, together with INRENA from Moyobamba, headed by Cesar Navarro G. and John J. Esteban Romero, quickly agreed to cooperate in rescuing the animals. The next morning we headed out with the police and INRENA and rescued a common woolly monkey from one of the zoos and the spider monkey from the circus. Rescuing the circus monkey was especially important for us as this monkey was most probably watched by thousands of children all over Peru, all of whom could get the impression that monkeys are good as pets which in turn encourages trafficking.

The monkeys are now with IKAMA Peru and seem to be doing great. There is still a lot of work needed to stop the illegal traffic of animals in the area, as well as many other basic problems such as a shortage of rescue canters, which means that there is nowhere to put rescued animals. Also the authorities are totally un-equipped to handle confiscations. For this reason, IKAMA Peru and NPC have decided to put a big effort into working with the authorities to help with capacity building and to provide much needed equipment.

The Andean night monkey (Aotus miconax) is another endemic and widely unknown species living around La Esperanza. A few days ago a local man told us that a young female that was stuck in some Eucalyptus trees next to the highway in someone’s garden. She was at least 500 metres from the next part of forest and there were 4 dogs sitting under the tree she was in. Thinking of the possible risks she would have to go through if we left her there, we decided to try to catch her. Some of the local men climbed up the trees and took photos of her; these are the first photos of this species ever to be published!!! They managed to catch her after a short while and we released her in the closest big patch of forest.

We have had many visits in the last two weeks. Wagner Guzman from IIAP (Instituto de Investigacion de la Amazonia Peruana), Lorena Durand from SPDA (Socciedad Peruana por Derecho Ambiental) and Luisa Guevara from APECO (Asosiacion Peruana por la Conservacion de la Naturaleza), came together for three days to give talks to the people in the different villages we work with. As these are very well known and respected local environmental institutions, there was high attendance to the talks and people showed a lot of interested in the idea to conserve their forests.

Cesar Bartra From INRENA came to give a talk about the laws and possible alternatives to logging. All of these people promised to visit again soon and to cooperate with the project.