- Yavari-Miri, Peru Photo - ©Pablo Puertas Few places in the
world rival the Yavari River and its seasonally flooded forests
in the western Amazon Basin for sheer wildness. The river, an
Amazon tributary, forms the boundary between Peru and Brazil.
The Lago Preto Conservation Concession protects more than 38
square miles of tropical forest, mauritia palm swamps, and
flooded forests in this region. The many animals sharing the
habitat include macaws, black caiman, giant river otters,
peccaries, tapirs, armadillos, anteaters, sloths, jaguars, and
pumas. The Greater Yavari-Samiria landscape, which covers more
than 5,700 square miles of pristine Amazon forests, contains one
of the most remote and isolated ecosystems in the region. There
are still un-contacted indigenous groups living here, and the
overall human population is one of the smallest found anywhere
in South America. |Fourteen species of primates live here,
including the critically endangered red uakari.| The greatest
challenges to wildlife in this land