A Life-Changing Casuality

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 […]
Searching for a more fulfilling environmental conservation career? Michaela May finds out how?

How to create a meaningful environmental career path. Media Intern Michaela May talks to Mark Thomas, our new Conservation Research Coordinator at the MLC about how his journey to get to living and working in the rainforest……… Mark Thomas is a Research Coordinator for the Crees Foundation in the Amazon Rainforest. He is from Brighton […]
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” […]
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 […]
When the River Speaks: Uncovering the Hidden Truths of Gold Mining.

Cuando suena el rio, piedras trae Crees Multimedia Intern, Jone Troconis, looks beneath the surface of Manu’s waters: what opportunities, threats and challenges do they bring to communities in Madre de Dios? Emerald green waters clash with the red clay walls that give the southern bound direction to the Alto Madre de Dios. The young […]
Ecotourism in Peru: An Interview with Crees’ Project Coordinator, Kristi Foster

This article was originally written by Marnie Sullivan, and is part of a Community Service-Learning Project at the University of Alberta. The International Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as the “responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment, sustains the well-being of local people, and involves interpretation and education.” To find out what impact ecotourism has on these parts […]
Photo Story: A day of discoveries in the Amazon, from dawn ’til dusk

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 […]
Rainforest Reborn: Saving the most biodiverse place on Earth

How do you create a sustainable movement in Manu Rainforest, the remote Peruvian Amazon, where people live in poverty and jobs are hard to find? Our nature reserve, the Manu Learning Centre (MLC), was farmland just 30 years ago. The trees had been logged to grow crops and graze cattle. The forest was degraded and […]