) This expedition to volunteer in South America will take you to a remote and beautiful biodiversity hotspot of the Amazon basin. As part of a small international team, you will experience living and working in the jungle together with local biologists on an important wildlife survey concentrating on cats, primates, macaws and other flagship species of the Amazon. In doing so, you will also aid community conservation efforts and the development of sustainable management strategies. Based at a comfortable jungle lodge in a remote part of the forest, you will be working on foot in the jungle, recording cat, primate and other species and setting camera traps, as well as from hides observing macaws feeding on riverside clay lick sites, creating databases, and much more. All this as an integral part of a conservation project that will preserve an intact landscape of forest for further multidisciplinary research projects. Dates & meeting point: 10 - 16 Sep 2017 (7 days). Other dates. Participants can join for multiple slots (within the periods specified). The meeting point is in Puerto Maldonado (a regional centre in Peru) and participants have to organise their own travel there. More details on this and how to get to the assembly point are in the expedition briefing Vocabulário: hotspot (ponto de acesso); survey (pesquisa); flagship (emblemático); In doing so (ao fazê-lo); lodge (pousada). It is correct to state that the focus of the expedition to Peru is to take volunteers... Alternativas: a) ... to help South American border patrol fight the animal trafficking. b) ... to help scientists monitor, study and catalog the region’s rich biodiversity. Alternativa assinalada c) … to work with the local population feeding and taking care of the rich biodiversity. d) ... to live in a remote part of the forest and work on boat in the jungle. e) ... to live in a comfortable lodge in the jungle from where they can observe the wildlife. 2) EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION Deforestation can have a negative impact on the env