The Monte Cristo Reserve & Ecological Center
The Monte Cristo Reserve & Ecological Center offers a very unique opportunity to visit and work at a beautiful 250 acre rainforest ecological reserve located in the heart of the Peruvian Jungle. The Reserve is designed as a model of development that engages some of the most pressing issues in the Amazon - sustainable agriculture, deforestation, eco-economics and eco-tourism.
Monte Cristo is a lodge, farm, reserve and research center. It is located in the mountainous high-altitude rainforests of Peru - only 3 hours from Machu Picchu. Numerous species of birds, vascular flora, plants and mammals live and flourish in this area - including the rare and beautiful Tunki.
Monte Cristo is not only a place where you can experience the beauty and majesty of the rainforest, but also a place to engage in ways to protect the environment, learn about sustainable agriculture, journey on spiritual quests and learn the medicinal ways of the plants. It is a dynamic development model, as well as a sanctuary.
Machu Picchu
The Monte Cristo Ecological Center is located just 3 hours north of Machu Picchu
Project Overview
Here are a few of the projects that we are currently engaged in and building:
- Organic Farming
- Coffee, Avocadoes, Bananas, fruits, Cacao
- Fish Hatchery
- The first stages of a fish hatchery have been built by the Peruvian government next to our reserve.
- Medicinal Garden
- Under construction
- Greenhouse
- Under construction
- Volunteer Center
- Under construction
- Reforestation
- Seeding center and outreach to community
- Animal Sanctuary
- Monte Cristo acts as a reserve and sanctuary to animals caught by poachers and traders
Organic Specialty Coffee
We farm, produce, and export specialty coffee to the United States
The Ecological center is a multi-purpose site in which the primary goal is to create a working model of ecological and economic sustainability that will preserve the natural and cultural history and richness of the area. The primary vision is to create a new paradigm of interaction between the local community, visitors and nature that becomes of mutual benefit and economic success.
Location
The Reserve is located approximately 2 hrs northeast of Quillabamba near the small town of Echarate - one of the agricultural heartlands of the Amazon.