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The following
is a brief of RCF's goals and strategies for the RCTT.
Biodiversity:
Fauna management, community management of lakes, habitat protection
and recuperation, alternatives to hunting. Support research projects.
Land use:
Agroforestry systems, aguaje, successful species, enriched fallows,
maintain local/community possession, use secondary forest and degraded
areas, avoid cutting primary forest. Support research projects.
RCTT:
Protect RCTT with community support and legal action. Increase
national awareness and understanding of the reserve. Expand
reserve on Yavarí
side. Increase extension activities.
Human activities:
Support existing communities and their needs. Support activities
which allow communities to function well and manage their natural
resources. Monitor and influence government decisions/actions concerning
new settlements, land concessions, cattle, and extraction in the
area.
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- The RCTT
is home to the most diverse assembly of primate species
of any protected land in the world; 14 species--including the
Red Uakari.
- The protected
land is now at 800,000 acres, but could be expanded to
over 2 million.It is located in the northeastern part of Peru's
region of Loreto , south of Iquitos.
- The area
is a community reserve; the extension personnel work closely with
the villagers to maintain the buffer zones around the 800,000-acre
core area.
- There are
no villages in the reserve itself, which is rare for a protected
area in South America.
- This is
a long-term conservation project.
- Endangered
animals found here include: Jaguar, Manatee, Tapir, Pink River
Dolphin, Harpy Eagle, Red Uakari Monkey, Paiche (Arapaima gigas
- the world's largest freshwater fish), Ocelot, Giant Otter, Giant
Anteater, Taricaya Turtle.

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