Padre Cocha, Iquitos, Peru
Welcome to The Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm. The Amazon is profuse with many varieties of butterfly on show, including the highly colored and delicate Longwings and other Heliconids Swallowtails (papilios) Peirids Caligos (owl butterflies). At Pilpintuwasi, you will see the rearing of the giant blue Morphos (image above), Helicons, Owl Moths, Swallow tails and many others. [...]
We got three new animals since I last wrote to you: The vet told me he called the lodge owner to tell him that he should take the anmal back to his lodge and take care of it. But that irresponsible lodge owner (believe me I wrote another word first!) told him he wouldn’t take [...]
Gudrun gets to town every couple of weeks to update all of us. She doesn’t have Internet at Pilpintuwasi. We are trying now to catch up with all the news From Pilpintuwasi and the Amazon Animal Orphanage and hope it will be easier now that we’ve added a blog to the site. When she gets [...]
March 2012: We recently added a news blog to our site. We receive many eMails and comments from supporters. Now we have a place so that we can easily hear from you. We are moving earlier news to these pages throughout the year. Please visit us in Iquitos! Iquitos is situated near the confluence of [...]