Highlights of Peru (PHOTOS)

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Below you will find a collection of photos from Rhett Butler's 2011 trip to Peru. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler in 1995, 2005, and 2011. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.


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Remote house atop a mountain peak in the Andes Amazon broccoli forest River in Peru's Amazon Huacarpay lake Aerial photograph of Broccoli rainforest 88 Butterfly (Diaethria clymena) Amazon rainforest river in the Peruvian Amazon Huacarpay lake Moisture transpiring from the Amazon rainforest at sunset Broccoli forest amid rainforest in the Amazon Scarlet macaw in the Amazon Large-scale deforestation for ranching in the Peruvian Amazon Overhead view of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon Logging road in Peru's Amazon Male cock-of-the rock Rainforest river as seen from above Andean peaks Steep agriculture in Peru Amazon cloud forest and the Andes Bird Devastation wrought by an open pit gold mine in the Peruvian Amazon River valley on the Amazon side of the lower Andes Tree ferns in the Manu cloud forest Blue butterfly (Satyr species) Aerial picture of gold mining damage in Peru's Amazon rainforest Deforestation for cattle ranching Transoceanica in Peru Glacier melt in the Andes Highly biodiverse submontane forest of the Amazon basin Aerial photograph of Amazon broccoli forest Highland Amazon stream Lake in the Amazon rainforest Devastation wrought by an open pit mine in the Amazon Yellow flowers Aerial view of a muddy, mine waste-laden stream flowing into a rainforest river Manu canopy walkway Group of Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) in the Peruvian Andes Glacial peaks in the Andes Open pit Lamal mine in the Peruvian Amazon Overview view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mining Aerial pix of Peru's Amazon rainforest Aerial view of a rainforest lodge in Peru Remote house atop a mountain peak in the Andes Aerial view of flowering trees and rainforest canopy in the Ucayali department of the Peruvian Amazon Cloud forest in Peru Yellow flowering tree in Peru's Tambopata Reserve Bamboo forest in the Amazon Red-eyed leafhopper Aerial photograph of Broccoli rainforest Giant green anole Aerial view of a rainbow over the world's largest tropical forest Remote river in the uppermost reaches of the Amazon rainforest Brocoli forest from above Leafhopper Red and black insect Aerial picture of cattle pasture cleared along a river in the Peruvian Amazon Mosiac deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon Green katydid Turquoise and orange leafhopper Male cock-of-the rock Meneria Metalmark (Amarynthis meneria) Small-scale deforestation in the Amazon Plane view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines Pink flowers Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mining Bromeliad in Peru's cloud forest Scarlet macaw in the Amazon Manu canopy walkway Rio Pini Pini flowing out of Manu National Park Masked Trogon (Trogon personatus) Blue-banded Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis) Pair of scarlet macaws playing Aerial photograph of the broccoli-like structure of the Amazon rainforest canopy Flowering trees on a hillside in the Amazon Cloud forest in Peru Shield bug River polluted with mine tailings entering a rainforest river in Peru Airplane view of a mine waste-laden stream flowing into a rainforest river in Peru Red and white leaf of a rainforest shrub Amazon rainforest river in the Peruvian Amazon Aerial view of wetlands near Cuzco Rainforest river in Manu Deforestation for cattle ranching Upper Amazon forest and the Andes Brazilian Lady (Vanessa braziliensis) Bromeliad in Peru's cloud forest Aerial photo of the rainforest canopy in Peru's Western Amazon River polluted with mine tailings in the Amazon rainforest Yellow flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest Highland Amazon stream Flowering trees and rainforest canopy in Peru's Ucayali department Cane toad Aerial photograph of a rainforest river in the Peruvian Aerial photograph of an Waterfall near Manu Rugged Amazon rainforest terrain Cecropia in the Peruvian cloud forest Red bromeliad Red bromeliads in Manu cloud forest Andean peaks and a turquoise lake

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