Chris Kirkby, guardian angel of the Rainforest

- ‘Are you traveling alone?’ - a guide asked me who was coming to Wasai Lodge from Cusco with a couple of American tourists.
- ‘Yes, but I was invited by the director of one of a volunteer organization, Fauna Forever, his name is Chris Kirkby’
- ‘Oh, Chris! I know him, of course, he is a very good friend of mine!’

Being in another part of the region, Sandoval lake, I was talking to Esaud who was my guide there.
- ‘How long have you been traveling in Peru?’ – he asked.
- ‘It is the second week. I used to live with biologists in Venado.’
- ‘Venado? What is it?’
- ‘Well, it is one of the research stations of Fauna Forever. Its director helped me to organize my trip.’
- ‘But what is his name?’
- ‘Chris Kirkby...’
- ‘Oh, Chris! I know him for a long time, from his first visit to Peru! That time he didn't know anything about our jungle that time, I was helping him to settle down here...’

Mark, Amazonian Mowgli

    - Mark, where did you plan to set up a tent? – I've asked him during our trail to the clay lake hidden in the rainforest of Tambopata river. Before this journey, I noticed that he looked at my tent, where I used to live during my stay in Peruvian Amazonia, with a touch of envy. Later on, he explained that if he had a tent, he would pitch it here, in El Campo, to spend the night on the shore of this "marvelous" pool full of clay and mud.

-    Just here, of course! What a question?.. – Mark pointed to the deep slippery clay where I even not dare to tread.

The eco-guides - Amazonian power rangers

An eco-guide in Amazonia and a tourist guide in Europe are dramatically different professions. The primary aim of the European guide is to share the well-known information with his clients.

In Amazonia, the job of the guide is a serious job, that can also be at times dangerous, and requires a lot of special knowledge and skills.

Magali - the noble soul of Amazon Shelter

- You can't imagine what people can do - says Magali, the founder and the president of the Amazon Shelter  - a non-governmental organization whose mission is to rescue and rehabilitate the wild animals suffered because of the human fault.

- ‘They cut off the wings, brake legs and claws, feed by food that causes serious diseases; whatever comes to their morbid imagination if only to turn them into the pets.