Chuncho Lodge and Its Impact on Environmental Education in the Peruvian Amazon

Chuncho Lodge, as part of its responsibilities to the community, the city, and the country, organizes an all-expenses-paid trip to our lodge every year, thanks to our tourists, to all of you who visit us, who make it possible for us to help raise environmental awareness. This year, 2025, we brought 28 students and 2 teachers from the Dos de Mayo school of Iberia. This is an small town near Brazil border were most of the population works in farms and timber extraction. This is the home town and school were the boss and owner of our organization has studied.

Chuncho Lodge understands that the parents of this national school do not have the necessary resources to cover a trip like the one we provided, since our service was the same as for any of our tourists. Therefore, we covered 100% of the cost.

So, the company will always be very grateful to the guests who visit us, as they help us reach new generations with positive educational activities that reinforce our commitment to being an ecolodge with environmental awareness and responsibility.

I must also thank two organizations that helped us make the educational talks with scientists and educational materials possible, highlighting Chuncho Lodge’s work with the students of the Dos de Mayo School of Iberia. These organizations were Fauna Forever and Wilderness International. In the end, the park rangers of the Tambopata National Reserve also joined us, and together we ensured that these young people had an unforgettable experience.

Chuncho Lodge embraces this commitment as part of the responsibility that every company that loves its culture, its habitat, and Mother Nature should have: to protect and teach future generations to care for it.

Finally, I want to thank the entire Chuncho Lodge team, from the kitchen staff to the caretakers, waiters, drivers, and guides, as well as the scientists and park rangers, for helping me to help others.

Chuncho Lodge knows that you can only care for and protect what you know and love. We hope we achieved that goal with the students.
This year, 2026, we want to offer another environmental education course, and we will! Please, fellow tourists and visitors to our rainforest, help us. Together, we can do so much to protect our planet.

Thank you all! ……kindly
Jorge Borja

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Chuncho Lodge is 100% local owned lodge; in Madre de Dios there are over 20 different lodges, all of them offering tour programmers and services to any visitor to in our region.

Of all the lodges, only 3 are local owned, the other lodges belong to foreigner people from other countries and cities. So, you may say, why is that? How can a local people whom own the land cannot start a tourism business in their own land?

This is something that happen very often, if you check other countries where tourism is develop like Costa Rica or Belize, this happens same as in here, in Puerto Maldonado.

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