Puma Sacha

Supporting Conservation of the Amazon Rainforest

In line with our commitment in supporting, promoting and actively sustaining Eco-cultural biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon, we have ultimately managed in September 2009 to source ”Pumasacha” a private jungle reserve of 40 hectares of beautiful pristine rainforest in the Northern Peruvian Amazon (off the – only – road linking Iquitos with Nauta). We have chosen to give the name “Pumasacha” to this splendid reserve, in honor of the plant teacher (that goes under the same name) dieted by bancos to shape-shift themselves into jaguars.

Home to wild cats (Jaguarundi have been spotted there!), birds, small mammals, reptiles, rodents and lots of amphibians, this area of the jungle has lots of native plants and trees of medicinal and shamanic interest, including – among countless others – Remocaspi, Chullachaki caspi, Alcanfor Moena, and Copal trees.

The beautiful pristine rainforest spot El Mundo Magico has reserved for conservation purposes in the Iquitos area

Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco