Knowing and Valuing the San Martin Titi Monkey

This project, for which we teach at schools about the San Martin titi monkey, already exists some time. This year we have adjusted the workshops focusing on children from 8 to 11 years of age, who attend the primary level in educational centres. At the same time, we have designed workshops aimed at adolescents from 14 to 16 years of age who are in secondary school, with the aim of raising awareness among the participants about the importance of conserving regional biodiversity focused on the San Martín titi monkey.

We have made progress with the coordination of the UGEL (Local Educational Management Unit of the Municipality), as it is important that these courses are officially recognized. The goal for this year is to execute the programme at 14 locations.

Discovering nature

In coordination with the NGO Compassion International, we will execute four workshops at 12 different locations in the Alto Mayo. As with most of our other educational activities, the workshops intend to increase at each locality the local knowledge of the forest by providing a learning experience in contact with nature. We hope to generate more appreciation for the forests around their locality and create awareness of the importance of caring for this environment.

Volunteer program

Professional volunteering

Tania Vasquez, a microbiologist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima) and master student from the Universidad Austral de Chile joins the team for three months.

PMT has a national and international volunteer network that strengthens our projects. In this way, we have the support of young people from different localities and countries involved in the conservation of Peruvian biodiversity.

Pre Professional practices

For many years we receive each year volunteers from the Casa MundoWelthaus Bielefeld, a German developmental organization that gives volunteers the opportunity to work everywhere on the world together with local associations for global social justice and sustainable development. During the regional San Martín meeting of the partnership, Casa Mundo-Welthaus Bielefeld organized for tutors a training workshop on interculturality and mental health.

We were invited by the Management Committee of the Alto Mayo Protection Forest (an important conservation area, with titi monkeys living in its low-altitude parts) to participate in the meeting where they presented the activities of 2022 and the plans for this year.

The Fernando Belaunde Terry highway was constructed in the 1970s through the Alto Mayo Valley. It made travel in the region much easier, but also opened up the titi monkey habitat for settlers from other parts of Peru, resulting in extremely high deforestation rates. A new governmental project, the “Great Green Crusade for the Alto Mayo”, intends to plant 10.000 trees along the highway. The team of Proyecto Mono Tocón participated in the reforestation of the Moyobamba sector.

Students of the Faculty of Ecology of the National University of San Martín from the Technology Applied to Soil course visited our restoration demonstration plot, where they received lessons related to their professional development and learned about our conservation actions. We participated to several meetings for the creation of the Local Environmental Management System (Municipality of Moyobamba), which will work on different environmental issues.