A Life-Changing Casuality

Ida Karlsson in the Peruvian Amazon jungle with her camera for a phot shoot.

By Ida Karlsson The best coincidence of my life! – How did a twenty-two-year-old girl from the Swedish countryside end up in the middle of the Peruvian jungle? Honestly, it was a coincidence, but it is the best coincidence of my life! Writing has been my passion ever since I learnt the alphabet. That is […]

Advice from the Amazon: A Conservation Intern’s Story

Interns talking to Interns by Mackenzie McDermott Media Intern Mackenzie McDermott talks to Ciara Morton, Conservation Intern about how her passion for conservation started and where she goes from here……… Before Ciara Morton could so much as spell biodiversity she was out in the wilderness searching for species. Growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, Morton’s “hippy” […]

Daily excerpts from Peter Lowe, a Crees volunteer

Diary excerpts from life as a Crees Volunteer, Peter Lowe recounts his time with us at the Manu Learning Centre  Greetings from the Amazon, nothing could have prepared me for the view from Mirador ten minutes trek from base camp with the snow capped peaks of the Andes in the far distance, it was jaw […]

Connecting Art and Conservation – Q&A with Pooja Gupta, Multimedia Intern Assistant

Connecting Art and Conservation Q&A with Pooja Gupta, Crees Multimedia Intern Assistant Pooja tells us how her work takes her around the world documenting the natural world and communicating conservation through a range of different creative mediums. In the setting of the Peruvian Amazon, with the sounds of the jungle as background noise to the […]

Seeing the Unseen : deconstructing the rainforest by Pooja Gupta

Deconstructing the rainforest experience Every time we step out of our homes we are bombarded with a million things to see. From billboards to advertisements on vehicles, high-rise buildings, gates, street lamps and more, it is easy to be put off by this information overload. I am often unable to focus on any one thing, […]

Amphibian Encounters in the Amazon

Let Multimedia Intern, Grace Cavanagh take you on a journey through one of the most exciting jungle experiences you’ll have at the Manu Learning Centre: a night survey in the middle of the rainforest. So, you’re on your way to the Amazon, but you’re not sure what to expect? Well, let me fill you in […]

Photo Story: A day of discoveries in the Amazon, from dawn ’til dusk

Crossing paths  Manu National Park Billy Stockwell .jpg

Despite its remote tropical location, the Manu Learning Centre in southeastern Peru becomes very much a home for its volunteers and interns. Time flies by and every day blurs into the same big adventure. From dawn till dusk, the excitement never stops. Let’s go on a journey through one of these days with multimedia intern […]

New: launching our first Orchid Bee Guide

Discover the amazing role that orchid bees play within ecosystems and the fascinating facts you learn while studying them in the remote Peruvian Amazon. With the launch our new Orchid Bee Guide for the Manu Learning Centre, we’re celebrating the small and beautiful insects that so often go unnoticed in the quest for larger jungle […]