indigenous territories already entitled whose territories should not be
affected but consolidated under the new proposal. According to the Director
General Forestal y Fauna Silvestre (M.Pastor), a debt-swap for nature project
was suggested to help the establishment of a new larger conservation area. The
debt-swap for nature approach did not work out. In 1988, the DGFF reconsidered
the larger ZRTC proposal, as Lima's reps from the Ministerio de Agricultura
were preparing an international summit to discuss and profile Peru´s National
Forestry Strategy (1989), that should include conservation and forestry
projects to be potentially funded. The main objective of the proposed ZRTC was
to combine agricultural and forestry schemes along the road Puerto Maldonado-
Cusco to help mitigate the future impact of the Carretera Binacional, to
consolidate indigenous territories, also the establishment of Eco-tourism areas
to save unique wildlife attractions, and protection/conservation areas where
healthy territories for Amazon wildlife such as the jaguar and other wild cats,
giant otter, over 10 monkey species, black caiman, over 400 bird species, and
thousands hectares of rainforests probably containing the richest botanical
diversity found in the Amazon, according to researchers and observers.
In 1990, thanks to the effort of the government to protect
the biodiversity, and lobbying from ACSS (E. Ráez-Luna, J. Oviedo and others)
it was named as ZRTC. Tambopata-Candamo was officially created on January 26,
1990, as an initiative of the Peruvian government following recommendations
from Peruvian and international researchers.
The Tambopata National Reserve was declared by means of the
Supreme Law # 048-2000-AG by the area's committee planner. This proposition was
elaborated in the background of the "Conservation of the Tropical
Ecosystems Project and the sustainable use of the
