Peru’s safe haven for threatened species – in pictures
Endemic frogs of captivating beauty, mammals and wild birds are among the species to be found in Peru’s Cordillera Escalera conservation area, a protected highly biodiverse area between the Andes and the jungle in the east of the country
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The Cordillera Escalera regional conservation area, located in the San Martín region, has existed since 2005 and covers an area of 149,870 hectares. Indigenous groups maintain that their collective territorial rights are violated by this, and other, protected natural areas
Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images
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A pink toe tarantula
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A green-backed trogon
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A cane toad
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A paradise tanager
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A white-hearted glass frog
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A pleasing poison frog (Ameerega bassleri)
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A grey-breasted sabrewing hummingbird
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A blue-fronted lancebill
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A tiger-striped tree frog
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A tropical screech owl
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A Koepcke’s hermit hummingbird
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A gilded barbet
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Two female short-billed honeycreepers and a male
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A Zimmerman’s poison frog
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A short-billed honeycreeper
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A dotted tanager
