Facilities

The ACEER Foundation supports its education and research programs in the Amazon with classrooms, field labs, canopy access systems, demonstration gardens, interpreted trails, and nature interpretation centers for researchers, students and others.

Manu Cloud Forest Canopy Walkway
The ACEER Foundation has provided funding for the design, construction, and operation of the new Canopy Walkway in the Peruvian Amazon.  In partnership with the Amazon Conservation Association (ACA), the Manu Cloud Forest Canopy Walkway is the first ever in the highland Amazonian cloud forest.  It employs a state-of-the-art non-tree attached technology and has classrooms and laboratories located in towers within the cloud forest canopy.  Located at Wayqecha, Peru, the gateway to Manu Biosphere Reserve, it is a major educational research resource for visitors to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. The canopy walkway was completed in August, 2009.

A major gift has been received from Rio Tinto , one of the globe’s leading suppliers of aluminum and packaging materials.  Rio Tinto , headquartered in Montreal, Canada, has contributed $250,000 Canadian dollars to the canopy observatory project that has been completed in the Andean Cloud Forest of Peru.  Rio Tinto chose to support this project because it highlights the innovative use of aluminum in a unique environment and because the ACEER has a long history of working with local communities to provide environmental education in schools.  

Other partners in the project are the National Geographic Society, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and the Windhover Foundation. 

See the Cloud Forest Canopy Walkway Design

View pictures taken by Amazon Conservation Association of the canopy observatory under construction