Media Products
Communications is an essential tool in raising awareness and advocating for better protection of the unique cultures and ecosystems of the Upper Amazon. We produce our own in-house materials and also collaborate with photographers, filmmakers, publications, and other media professionals on a wide range of media products.
Multimedia Reports | Advocacy Art | Video | Maps | Publications
Multimedia Reports
Esri “Story Map” on the Purús–Manu Landscape
Protecting the Wildest Place on Earth
UAC’s first Story Map explores the remarkable forests and indigenous tribes of Peru’s Purús–Manu Landscape and the forces that threaten it. Click here to view the English version (link opens in a new tab). A Spanish version will be available soon.
The Story Map project was made possible by the generous support of the Andes Amazon Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in partnership with the Purús–Manu Landscape Project Consortium.
An aerial view looking into the rising sun towards the Alto Purús National Park.
Advocacy Art
Last Wildest Place
Last Wildest Place is an Upper Amazon supported, award-winning, long-term and ongoing photography project produced by Jason Houston and Chris Fagan.
ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography: 1st Place (2020)
Jonny Copp Award (2014)
Presentation: Wildscreen Festival (2020)
Presentation: Adventure Film Festival, Boulder, CO (2016)
Exhibition: Photoville, New York, NY (2020)
Exhibition: International League of Conservation Photographers’s 15th Anniversary Exhibition (2020)
Exhibition: Bridge Gallery, Cambridge, MA (2020)
Exhibition: Adventure Film Festival, Boulder, CO (2016)
Last Wildest Place won the 2014 Jonny Copp Award at Adventure Film Festival and was presented and exhibited in 2016 at the festival in Boulder, CO.
Video
An older presentation describing the work of UAC (2014)
Short documentary on an expedition to document illegal loggers inside Alto Purús National Park (2006)
Documental corto sobre una expedición para documentar madereros ilegales dentro del Parque Nacional Alto Purús (2006)
Maps
Purús–Manu Conservation Landscape (click to enlarge)
Communities and protected areas of the Alto Purús River Region (click to enlarge)
La Novia Watershed Region (click to enlarge)
Communities and protected areas of Yurúa River Region (click to enlarge)
Communities and protected areas of the Sepahua River region (click to enlarge)
Communities and protected areas of the Inuya-Urubamba region (click to enlarge)
Communities and protected areas of the Alto Tamaya River Region (click to enlarge)
Publications
Who killed this Indigenous family in the Peruvian Amazon? And why?
Chris Fagan, NationalGeographic.com, November 2020
Last Wildest Place
Jason Houston and Chris Fagan, ZEKE magazine, Fall 2020
Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon
Chris Fagan, mongabay.com, December 2019
Investigation reveals large-scale land invasion in Peruvian Amazon (audio podcast)
Chris Fagan, mongabay.com, December 2019
Perú: cultivos de coca amenazan áreas protegidas y pueblos indígenas en aislamiento en la Amazonía
Chris Fagan, es.mongabay.com, December 2019
Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle (English) (Spanish)
Chris Fagan, National Geographic magazine, October 2018
Natural Resource Use in Alto Purús Indigenous Communities (in Spanish)
Upper Amazon Conservancy and ProPurús, 2013
Social and Environmental Impacts of Mahogany Logging on Peruvian Indigenous Communities (Graduate Study Thesis)
Aaron Groth, Masters of Arts candidate, University of Missouri – August 2014
Alto Purús National Park Guard Manual
Upper Amazon Conservancy – October 2013
Coca and conservation: cultivation, eradication, and trafficking in the Amazon borderlands
D. S. Salisbury and C. Fagan. Geojournal, August 2011.
Overflight Reveals Illegal Settlement in the Alto Purús National Park
Upper Amazon Conservancy – August 2010
Illegal Mahogany Logging Continues in the Murunahua Uncontacted Reserve
Upper Amazon Conservancy – July 2010.
