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“Cocha Cashu literally changed my life. As a Princeton graduate student with John Terborgh in the mid-1970s I helped cut and map the original trails, set the original mist-net lines for bird studies, and began to document the area's extraordinary bird and mammal diversity. I became a tropical ecologist and a passionate conservation scientist while striving to untangle the many hundreds of parts that make up Cashu's orchestral dawn choruses, and carefully measuring how eighty (80!) species of Tyrant Flycatchers make their living together at one place. I woke up each day mesmerized by the spiritual chants of Red Howler Monkeys, and closed my weary eyes most nights to the mournful whistles of tinamous and potoos. Cocha Cashu and the Manu National Park provide scientists the singular chance to study pristine American tropics squarely at the epicenter of the greatest diversity of biological life on planet Earth. Nobody who is lucky enough to work, or even visit, this amazing place will ever walk away untouched by its towering riches, nor unmoved by its timeless call to the deepest places in our human soul.”

John W. Fitzpatrick

"I worked in Cocha Cashu I think in 1998, and most of my experience up until then was within Canada. I had imagined the jungle would be pretty intense, but Cocha Cashu absolutely blew me away. I had the impression that there were 10 ecosystems superimposed, simply more species than I thought were possible -- to leave camp was to have a series of intimate wildlife experiences. Even so, I never knew at the time how closely my experiences from Cocha Cashu would travel along with me. I've since had the chance to work at a few tropical places around the globe and realize how unique the Amazon is for this dense biodiversity. As we watch Amazonia shrink away I think it's great and extremely important that you folks are taking care of that research site!”

Gwylim Blackburn