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• - Discusses short and long term environmental effects on army tactical decision of this current off the Peruvian coast. With links to other information. U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center.
  
• - A volunteer research initiative in the forests of the Peruvian Amazon investigating the impact of tourism on wildlife around lodges in the Tambopata area.
  
• - Makes a case study of the epidemic outbreak in 1991, with graphics and geographic information system data files. University of Colorado's Department of Geography
  
• - Nonprofit organization dedicate to Rainforest purchase for conservation, preservation and education.
  
• - Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989), an online manuscript that covers research about exotic cereales, fruits, roots and tubers.
  
• - Lays out the Foundation's goals of buying land in the cloud-and-rain forest areas and opening the "Shaman Medical Research Center" joining local shamans in investigating plant species to find new compounds, vaccines and cures for diseases.
  
• - Jeffrey Bernstein pulls together a broad, current picture of information technology and its impact on the country.
  
• - RCF informs about efforts to raise funds for and manage the 800,000 acre Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve near Iquitos.
  
• - Operates in the Amazon Basin of Peru and implements rural electrification programs using renewable energies.
  
• - A detailed study of glaciation in Peru by Benjamín Morales-Arnao with sections on the Cordillera Blanca on landsat imagery and Quelccaya Ice Cap by Stefan L. Hastenrath.
  
• - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Focuses on trade as an agent of globalization.
  
• - Supplements information in PBS program, including flora, fauna, history, links and classroom resources. The Manu Biosphere Reserve lies in the Peruvian Amazon.
  
• - Butterfly exhibit in Puerto Maldonado run by Peruvian scientists in order to do the research required to engineer the ecologically friendly use of butterflies and help in the conservation of the Peruvian rainforest through them.
  
• - Information about the U.S. botanist (1892-1976) and his ground-breaking Flora of Peru series. Excerpts from his travel journal with photos (1922-3).
  
• - A combination travelogue and scientific inquiry into medicinal uses of rain forest plants. Neurologist Ethan Russo examines the ethnobotany, anthropology, and wildlife of this Amazonian tribe in Parque Nacional del Manu.
  
• - Provides information about ACEER's activities in research, education and land husbandry in the Upper Amazon Basin, near Iquitos, where it owns 250,000 acres of rainforest.
  
• - Seeking to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in
  
• - Francisco Olivera (Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin) gives a didactic exercise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to examine an Andean watershed. Includes maps and graphics.
  
• - Analyses the history and impact of guano mining and commerce in the 19th and early 20th century, as part of the Trade Environment Database (TED) at American University.
  
• - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Examines the impact of globalization on people.
  
• - Informs about activities of this non-profit association, including its annual publication and cacti-related research outside Peru.
  
• - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Explores the ecological impact of drug trafficking on the Amazon.
  
• - Landsat pictures and a short commentary on the Ucayali River in the Amazon basin.