Endemic frogs of captivating beauty, mammals and wild birds are among the species to be found in Peru’s Cordillera Escalera conservation area, a protected highly biodiverse area between the Andes and the jungle in the east of the country
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Main image: A Zimmerman’s poison frog. Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images
Wed 20 Jul 2022 07.29 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Jul 2022 07.45 EDT
The Cordillera Escalera regional conservation area, located in the San Martín region, has existed since 2005 and covers an area of 149,870 hectares. Indigenous groups maintain that their collective territorial rights are violated by this, and other, protected natural areas
