For Immediate Release
The Rainforest Alliance Names Posada Amazonas
As One of 10 Recipients
Of 2012 Sustainable Standard-Setter Award
Posada Amazonas Is One of Three Certified Sustainable Eco-Lodges
Managed by Peru’s Rainforest Expeditions
LIMA, Peru, May 24, 2012– Posada Amazonas Lodge, one of three accommodations under the directive of Peru’s visionary leader in sustainable tourism, Rainforest Expeditions
http://www.perunature.com/, is one of 10 international concerns singled out by
The Rainforest Alliance, an international sustainability nonprofit, to receive its
2012 Sustainable Standard-Setter award.
The awards honor businesses and individuals that champion conservation, protect the environment and support local communities. Announcements were made on May 16 at a gala event in New York City.
Posada Amazonas (
http://www.perunature.com/posada-amazonas.html) is a rustic, comfortable lodge in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, teeming with monkeys and more than 850 species of birds. In biodiversity-rich surroundings, The Rainforest Alliance Verified™ lodge hires from within the community, and sources locally produced goods whenever possible. Since joining the verification program, the lodge has implemented a biodegradable sanitation system, reduced air and water pollution by purchasing eco-friendly boats, improved waste management, and conducted extensive training in sustainable management.
The lodge is owned by and located within a communal reserve of the indigenous Ese’eja of Infierno who manage it in partnership with Rainforest Expeditions. Some 170 native and ribereño (second or third generation settlers) families work and profit from this 30-room (each with private bath) lodge, wellness and holistic center for massage and aromatherapy, and dining. A common area includes (a hammock lounge, a meeting room and a bar) A 30-meter scaffolding Canopy Tower offers views of the vast expanses of standing forest and Tambopata River. Resident are toucan, parrot and macaw; hoatzin, caiman and horned screamer. From a catamaran on Lake Tres are sightings of a family of Giant River Otters. Activities include walking an ethno botanical trail, visiting a working vegetable farm, community visits, kayaking and mountain biking.
Other 2012 Sustainable Standard-Setter honorees are Blommer Chocolate Company, Bloomberg, Fazendas Reunidas Vale do Juliana SA, Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal, Global Environment Facility, La Arboleda Community Mill, Marks and Spencer Group plc, The Nabob Coffee Company and Staples.
About Rainforest Expeditions
(
http://www.perunature.com/) is a Peruvian ecotourism company that shares with visitors in a sustainable manner the miracles of the Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone, 1.5 million hectares of pristine, still wild, tropical rainforest encompassing an area of land the size of Connecticut and stretching from the Andean highlands to the Amazon lowlands.
It includes the
Tambopata National Reserve, a 275,000-hectare conservation unit created by the Peruvian government in 1990 to protect the watersheds of the Tambopata and Candamo rivers. It is adjacent to the 1-million-hectare Bahuaja Sonene National Park. Conservation and ecotourism is helping to protect some of the last untouched lowland and premontane tropical humid forests in the Amazon.
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