SFS Study Abroad: Amazon Studies in Peru
- Peru
- Iquitos
About Program
SFS offers some of the best (and most adventurous!) hands-on study abroad programs. Our programs in Peru explore pressing environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and impacts to Indigenous livelihoods. Students learn through outdoor lectures, hands-on field exercises, and activities with community members and area NGOs.
Nestled at the edge of the Amazon rainforest on a 183-acre property, the SFS Peru campus is the perfect place to connect with nature. Campus features include a pool, soccer field, hammock huts, and network of rainforest trails. It is located halfway between the remote city of Iquitos and the port city of Nauta, and there is a small community and local shops within walking distance.
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Program Highlights
- Earn academic credit: 18 credits for semester programs. Conduct a 4-credit research project during the semester program.
- Develop core skills including species IDs & population monitoring, biodiversity surveys & transects, interviewing & mapping techniques, conservation strategy assessment, basic Spanish language, research design & implementation, data collection & analysis.
- Take a multi-day riverboat trip in Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area, home to species such as pink river dolphins, sloths, piranhas, primates, macaws, giant river otters, and many more species.
- Board a plane and fly to Cusco for a multi-day excursion in the Sacred Valley, home to Machu Picchu. Explore cloud forests and other highland ecosystems and visit a Quechua-owned potato farm focused on preserving hundreds of Andean potato varieties.
- SFS Peru semester research topics may include climate change, forest and soil ecology, sustainable aquaculture, natural resource management, forest recovery, development in the Amazon.
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Explore the extraordinarily biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, home to over 3 million species. Learn about environmental threats – from climate change to resource extraction – and discuss Peru’s approaches to conservation. Experience flooded forests on a multi-day riverboat trip and travel to the Andean highlands where you’ll visit cloud forests and the historic Incan capital of Cusco, the hub for visitors to Machu Picchu.
5 classes | 18 credits | One life-changing experience.
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