Visit to Encante - dolphins of the Amazon region

Animals, March, 2000 by Sy Montgomery

Amazonia Expeditions can book your flight to Iquitos, Peru, including a hotel overnight there. From Iquitos, it is an all-day boat ride upriver to the Rainforest Lodge. Contact: Paul Beaver, Amazonia Expeditions, 10305 Riverburn Drive, Tampa, FL 33647: (800) 262-9669; www.perujungle.com and www.peruandes.com. Amazonia Expeditions contributes a portion of its proceeds to the Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF), a Chicago-based nonprofit that supports the adjacent Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve and funds agroforestry projects promoting the planting of indigenous species in the surrounding villages. RCF is planning guided tours of the reserve in conjunction with Amazonia Expeditions. Find out more by contacting: Rainforest Conservation Fund, 2038 North Clark Street, Suite 233, Chicago, IL 60614-4713; www.rainforescconservation.org.

Copyright [C] 2000 by Sy Montgomery. From the forthcoming book Journey of the Pink Dolphins by Sy Montgomery, to be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reprinted by permission.

COPYRIGHT 2000 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group

 

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