Development of a digital series Voces del Bosque, a digital series that shows the main wild species of Alto Mayo and northern Peru.

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Ikam Expeditions

Voices of the Forest, the series that promotes wildlife observation and the stories of those who strive to conserve it.

With funding from the Tourism Emprende program of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, the ecotourism company Ikam Expeditions presented the audiovisual series "Voices of the Forest", which shows incredible expeditions in search of unique wildlife species in northern Peru.

The first season of the digital series has 5 chapters:

  • Hummingbird route
  • Representative birds of the Alto Mayo
  • Nocturnal fauna in Tingana
  • Wildlife in Tingana
  • Birding in Moyobamba
Last update: 30 Sep 2025
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Context
Challenges addressed
Loss of Biodiversity
Ecosystem loss
Lack of alternative income opportunities
Changes in socio-cultural context
Lack of technical capacity
Unemployment / poverty

Our solution contributes to strengthen conservation and ecotourism ventures based on wildlife observation.

The remains are essentially to make these enterprises sustainable, and that the tourism and other sustainable activities they carry out can contribute to reduce deforestation and improve the living conditions of the families that work in the activity and the local community.

Scale of implementation
Local
Subnational
National
Multi-national
Global
Ecosystems
Tropical evergreen forest
Wetland (swamp, marsh, peatland)
Theme
Species management
Ecosystem services
Sustainable livelihoods
Local actors
Observación de vida silvestre
Location
Moyobamba, Department of San Martin, Peru
Rioja, Department of San Martin, Peru
Department of Amazonas, Peru
South America
Process
Summary of the process

They are definitely connected. In a project like this it is essential to know the biodiversity, to monitor wild species and their scenarios. It is also important to find new ways to communicate and make people learn about it and reflect on its importance and conservation.

Building Blocks
Biodiversity awareness

We had knowledge of the local biodiversity, and at the same time we knew what we were looking to show in terms of biological importance and possible national and international audience interest.

In addition, we consider the product to be very valuable in terms of photographic and video record, dating back to 4 years of monitoring and recording wildlife species.

Enabling factors

- Endemic and/or restricted birds

- Fauna and flora monitoring

- Constant field trips

- Relevant photographic and video recordings, in good quality.

- Equipment and materials available

Lesson learned

The dedication we had in the wildlife observation activity was important. Also the previous wildlife records were important, thanks to the fact that we had adequate equipment and informative material to construct the stories.

Another important lesson was to provoke interest in all participants. It is important to remember that the series was recorded in different spaces and our work was also to integrate the people who work here in the realization of the series, their participation was key.

Biodiversity communication

The creation of the series came about because we identified the need to communicate differently about biodiversity.

During our expeditions we have recorded several species in high quality videos, and in our networks we published those videos, but we saw that there was little interaction from people who did not know about the birds or those who were interested.

In that sense, we came up with the idea of making a digital series, with the intention of making a different way about the biodiversity of the Alto Mayo. We had to design the series, evaluate possible recording scenarios, select fauna, build stories, plan logistics, make alliances with audiovisual production companies, expert professionals, audiovisual production, and post production.

Enabling factors
  • Planning
  • Story creation
  • Experts (in biodiversity and audiovisual production)
  • Quality wildlife audiovisual recording
Lesson learned
  • A lot of learning about the development of an audiovisual project
  • New ways of communicating about biodiversity
  • It has been important to reflect on the importance of sites that carry out conservation actions.
Impacts

The impact is mainly communicational, our idea as an ecotourism company was to show our expeditions based on wild species and conservation areas, including Natural Protected Areas, private conservation areas, Regional Conservation Areas and other modalities.

To date, the audiovisual material has been exhibited in social networks (Instagram, Facebook and YouTube) of the company and allied organizations (Conservation International and Bosque de Protección Alto Mayo).

It is also important to point out that this type of material is unprecedented in the department and in the country.

Beneficiaries

Mainly entrepreneurs who are dedicated to offering various services related to wildlife watching (individuals and families, NGOs that administer or manage a natural area, other community groups, among others).

Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 12 – Responsible consumption and production
SDG 15 – Life on land
Story
Ikam Expeditions
Voices of the Forest Digital Series Poster
Ikam Expeditions

The history of our project dates back a long time. Since 2019 we have been recording images of wild species, however we wanted to design an audiovisual proposal that would allow us to show our material to a wider audience. Despite not having much experience in audiovisual projects we designed an audiovisual project, we got funding through an application for funding from the Peruvian government and from that we began to develop the project.

We were able to partner with an audiovisual production company and develop the project with them. It was challenging for Julio C. Tello, manager of Ikam Expeditions to participate as the host of the series, he had not done similar work before and for the rest of us to work in an area a little far from what we were doing but very necessary.

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