A day in the life: conservation fieldwork in the Amazon
Dawn surveys, camera traps and river sunsets
What does a typical day really look like deep in the Peruvian Amazon? We walk you through it.
Days in the Amazon start early. As the forest wakes, you are already on a transect, recording the primates and birds moving through the canopy. Mid-morning means checking camera traps for the previous night's visitors — perhaps a jaguar, an ocelot or a herd of peccaries.
Afternoons are for habitat surveys and logging the morning's data, before the forest puts on its evening show. It is real research, in one of the wildest places left — and the data you gather genuinely matters.
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