LIVE, WORK and TRAIN with indigenous people in the world famous Manu Biosphere Reserve of the Peruvian Amazon.

Learn to survive fieldwork challenges in the tropical rainforest and carry out ethnobotanical and conservation research with indigenous Amazonian communities.

• 10 days intensive training in wilderness first aid, leadership, group dynamics, field research skills, introductory tropical ecology and canopy ascent
  
  
• 17 days carrying out guided research with native Matsigenka informants and taking coursework on ethnobotany, theory and methods in ethnobiology, cultural ecology, tropical botany and ecology, biodiversity conservation and community-based resource management
  
  
• Course Professors:
  • Glenn H. Shepard Jr. (click for more info)
  • Douglas Yu (click for more info)
    
    

To supply young scientists with a unique blend of skills necessary to carry out ethnobotanical and conservation research with traditional forest peoples of the Amazon.

To immerse participants in the tropical rainforest and the native peoples of Manu National Park, providing hands-on training opportunities with experienced researchers Shepard and Yu, and with Matsigenka indigenous informants themselves.

• Earn field research skills and experience among traditional indigenous peoples in the pristine tropical forest environment of Manu National Park
• Interact directly and carry out guided research with Matsigenka informants
• Acquire Spanish language skills as well as training in field linguistics for indigenous languages
• Certificates will be available in leadership, team building, wilderness first aid, and canopy ascent. Academic credits are also potentially available
• Provide needed local conservation benefits to Matsigenka native communities through the innovative Casa Matsiguenka Lodge project
• Ideal way for graduating seniors to start a gap year

 

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