Photograph of the wider landscape: Lago Sandoval, Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Peru. Not the specific area under study. No Eden site or partnership is confirmed here.

Photograph · wider landscape

Amazon · Madre de Dios, Peru

Tambopata–La Pampa landscape

A landscape damaged by gold mining, where scientific restoration is under way. A specialist research candidate, not a ready guest destination.

Research candidateWatershed & biodiversity

Real location and documented needs. No Eden site or partnership confirmed.

Documented need

What the published record says.

CINCIA documents reforestation work at La Pampa in July 2024 and continuing scientific restoration of mining-damaged ecosystems, including at Balata, in August 2026. Its 2025 research communications address mercury pollution associated with mining.

Restoration and research evidence is dated 2024–2026 and belongs to the institutions doing it.

At a glance

Status: Research candidate
Location: Madre de Dios — Madre de Dios, Peru
Climate: Rainforest
Proposed mission: Watershed & biodiversity
Guest programme: Specialist restoration research; guest programme not established

The places on this site are real, and the environmental evidence is cited. Eden hospitality, prices, availability, booking, Impact Passport activity and Impact Credits are simulations. Nothing is bookable and no payment is ever taken.

Our proposal

Specialist restoration of mining-damaged forest

What we would propose here, if local partners wanted it. Nothing below has been agreed.

Proposed environmental focus

Support professionally led native forest restoration, nursery work and research data through established institutions.

Proposed community focus

Community priorities and forest-compatible livelihoods require local consultation before anything is proposed.

Potential contribution — subject to local agreement

What could be useful here.

For the place

Nursery propagation and seedling care
Plant survival and soil recovery records
Data entry and research support
Restoration record keeping

With the community

Paid local restoration and nursery roles
Purchasing from Madre de Dios producers and enterprises
Training designed with research institutions
Consultation before any programme is proposed

Dignified paid employment
Local enterprise & procurement
Education & youth training
Locally governed benefit-sharing

What we would measure

Indicators, not claims.

Proposed indicators — baseline pending, nothing measured yet. Any baseline would be set by an independent survey agreed locally before work began.

Place indicators

Plant survival in restoration plots
Baseline pending
Soil recovery in treated areas
Not yet measured
Water-quality readings against a future baseline
Not yet measured

Community indicators

Paid local roles supported
Baseline pending
Procurement value with regional enterprises
Not yet measured
Training completed with local institutions
Not yet measured

How we would verify this

Research stage

Read, notarranged yet.

We have read the published record for this landscape. We have not selected land, approached an organisation or agreed a single hour of work.

See a candidate in full

Tambopata–La Pampa landscape — Research candidate

The place, and concept imagery

How it would feel

The first frame is a photograph of the real landscape. The rest is concept imagery; not documentation of this location or of a built Eden Habitat.

Back to habitats

Research candidate means the place is real and the need is documented — not that you can book, and not that anyone has agreed to host us.