Peru sustainable project

To coincide with the re-branding of our Northern Peru expedition to ‘Andes & Amazon’ we have recently secured an exciting link up with an environmental project in the Tarapoto area. We have been awarded additional sustainable project funding to support this initiative for the next 3 years, starting in 2011. This gives us a great opportunity to build on the platform established by previous World Challenge teams who have visited the area. The project is focussed on the Cumbaza River watershed, part of the Amazon basin. This is located in San Martin, the most deforested region in Peru.

In conjunction with our project coordinator, Rodrigo Ponce we are part of an initiative to promote ecotourism and teach environmental techniques, such as permaculture in local communities. Several communal reserves will also be created in order to protect the rich biodiversity of the area. I visited the community of San Roque de Cumbaza on recce and the area is stunning - a truly magnificent setting for a World Challenge project!

If you need any more information on this exciting project please don’t hesitate to contact us

Chris, Expedition Planning Manager, South America

Earth Hour

World Challenge continues to look at ways to reduce its impact on the environment and help combat climate change. This Saturday, the world is invited to take part in Earth hour, where lights are switched off around the globe to help save electricity and give the earth a break. Earlier in the year World Challenge switched to green energy so that electricity in our head office now comes from sustainable sources, and World Challenge is now supporting Earth Hour by shutting down all non-essential office equipment, and encouraging staff to switch off lights in their homes at 20:30pm. Follow these links for more information on Earth Hour, how you can get involved, and what World Challenge do both in the UK and overseas.

Earth Hour
World Challenge's sustainabily work