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We are small organization dedicated to directly supporting the reforestation of the Giant Rainforest Trees as many of these species of plants are currently on the brink of extinction. Our organization also consists of programs to help retain the customs and traditions of the native communities of the rainforest.

Hampi Kora Botanical Garden
This beautiful garden is located in the natural reserve Selvalinda “Pantiacolla” (2100 acres) at the border of the Madre de Dios River in the Madre de Dios province located on the Southeast of Peru.  It contains greenhouses of traditional medicinal plants and stores of giant trees, palms, and vines.

The garden is cared for and maintained by the local people from germination until the plants have reached the size where they can be safely transplanted to their natural habitat.  Each year it is possible to transplant diverse plant species in different areas of the forest, thereby allowing the reforested areas to display the same cultural diversity as virgin rainforest.

The Hampi botanical garden also has an infrastructure of marked trails to facilitate access within the forest for visitors.  There are elevated platforms which offer a view of the complete biodiversity of the rainforest canopies.  A small library houses information on rainforest cultural biodiversity and identification and uses of medicinal plants for the convenience of those studying.  We are equipped with dormitories, a dining area, kitchen, and bathrooms with showers to offer facilities to those that wish to stay in the forest for longer periods to study different aspects of the jungle biology and for University programs.


The Herb House

The Herb House is the center where local herbalists, “Curendaros,” teach the visitors how the local people continue using natural remedies prepared from local plants and minerals.  These are remedies which have been passed on through generations of ancestors.  Our mission is to record and archive these healing methods to provide this information to future generations.  This is done by video-documentation, creating a library of techniques and philosophies taught directly by the native elders.


Saving the Giant Trees of the Rainforest

For the past decades the giant rainforest trees have fallen prey to the loggers. Generally the giant trees have fine wood, compact and hard, the majority of this wood is used in the production of quality furniture, this puts the value of the wood at a high price. Economics drives the loggers to seek and cut these giant trees, invading the interiors of the jungle with trucks and machines to extract these large trees, most of which are more than 50-75 meters high and 50-150 years old. Some of these trees are on the brink of extinction.
It is constantly getting more difficult to find giant trees such as Soap box tree (Giant wood/make boats) Castana. (Mahogany( Comercial wood)Caoba), Spanish cedar(Commercial wood Aguano, (Kapok (giant tree, solf wood)Lupuna) as many other giant trees. It is for this reason that we have created this program to “Save the Giant Trees of the Rainforest.” Our objective is to seed hundreds of trees, caring for them from germination to a point where they can be safely transplanted into their native environment.