Panguana

Panguana is a biological research station, founded in 1968 and since 2011 it is also a private conservation area extending over almost 10 km2 of tropical primary forest in Peru.

[1] Panguana is located in the low land rainforest at the western foothill of the El Sira mountain range east to the Andes.

About 4 km east of the station is a central village of the people with a school, where the Asháninka children from the area go to.

[1] Large parts of the Panguana conservation area are still covered by primary Amazon rainforest, and thus show a very high biodiversity, which has been explored only fragmentarily.

For comparison, there are only about 27 bat species documented for Europe, and only around 254 breeding birds live all over Germany with an area of around 357,000 km2.

[2] The aim of the research station Panguana is to explore the biodiversity of flora and fauna, and study their ecological relationships.

Through continuous scientific work, the diverse flora and fauna can be explored, systematically assigned and the different ways of life and biological relationships documented.

[5] Since 2003, there has been a co-operation between the Zoological State Collection Munich, where Diller works, and the Natural History Museum in Lima, Peru.

[6] Through sponsoring by the "Hofpfisterei" in Munich, the area of the station has been enlarged several times over the past few years by the acquisition of adjacent lands.