#33: The Amazon Research and Conservation Center on the Rio de Las Piedras, in the Peruvian Amazon
By Alex Shoumatoff
From the plane we catch glimpses of the Urubamba River, below Machu Picchu, plunging thousands of feet, then snaking through an ocean of trees that spreads east until it is lost in haze—the Amazon, the world’s largest and most diverse rainforest. We land in the humid furnace of Puerto Maldonado, the fourth-largest city …Read More