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Amazon Research Center Lodge

Amazonia Expeditions – Amazon Research Center Lodge Continuous scientific research & discovery is crucial to the ongoing protection of the Amazon Rainforest as well as other threatened regions around the world. The facilities of our Amazon Research Center...

Travel Bucket List

Travel Bucket List by Paul Beaver About the author: About the author: Paul Beaver, Ph.D. is the founder of Amazonia Expeditions ecotourism company. In 1981 Paul started the Amazon Rainforest’s first commercial adventure camping company, Amazonia Expeditions. Amazonia...

Biodiversity in the Amazon

Biodiversity in the Amazon          The word “biodiversity” is often heard while describing some of the most exotic places on the planet.  Some places, like the Amazon rainforest, are known as “biodiversity hotspots”. Unfortunately, the concept of biodiversity is...

KUKAMA (Cocama) Culture

KUKAMA (Cocama) Culture   The Kukama are an original culture of the Amazon Rainforest. They thrived in the rainforest for hundreds of years before the Spanish explorers arrived. The Kukama first made contact with explorers in 1549 during a Spanish expedition led...