2024 Expedition

The BOLIvian Amazon

Kay Pacha Initiative’s fourth expedition to the Bolivian Amazon will be in 2024. Our local partner is Sustainable Bolivia, a non-profit that focuses on enacting sustainable development and environmental conservation within the Aquicuana Reserve. 

In 2021 we took volunteers down to the reserve to begin the build of the Aquicuana’s first research station. The following year we returned to complete the the initial infrastructure. In 2023 we started providing the necessary lab equipment and furniture so that the station could be fully operational.

For this upcoming expedition in 2024, Kay Pacha Initiative is helping Sustainable Bolivia get researchers into the station so that the process of studying the reserve can begin. We will also be building dorms for the scientists to live on the reserve and solar panels to provide power for the station.

To see more check out our short film “Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Kay Pacha Initiative | Phase 3”:

https://youtu.be/bH66n-n-Tpo?si=UAtqyYz27oUueSEG

WHY THE AQUICUANA IN BOLIVIA

The Amazon Rainforest accounts for a large portion of the oxygen that we as humans breathe on the planet. Now more than ever it is important to protect this area of the world that acts as the lungs of the earth. The Aquicuana Reserve is a protected part of this vast ecosystem, and with our help we will provide Sustainable Bolivia with the necessary supplies and manpower to expand this protected area by 1 million acres in the next 10 years.

HOW KAY PACHA INTENDS TO HELP THE AMAZON

Kay Pacha Initiative will raise money to send volunteers to Bolivia in 2024 for the fourth phase of this project. Our volunteers will help local workers expand the operations of the Motacu research station. Sustainable Bolivia will use this structure and its equipment so that local biologists can conduct studies that will aid in its efforts to protect and expand the size of the reserve.

LEARN MORE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE BOLIVIA

Visit their website at http://www.sustainablebolivia.org/