Peru is the second country with the most forests in South America, find a list of these forests:
Pui Pui Protection Forest in Junín
The Pui Pui Protection Forest (BPPP) is a protected natural area under the classification of “protection forest” of Peru.
This forest crosses the districts of Vitoc, Chanchamayo, Pichanaqui, Pampa Hermosa, Comas and Monobamba, in the provinces of Chanchamayo, Jauja, Concepción and Satipo in the department of Junín.
Three new species of amphibians were discovered there: Pui Pui cutín frog (Pristimantis puipui), mountain frog (Pristimantis bounides) and Humboldt’s frog (Pristimantis humboldti).
The Pui Pui protection forest next to the Pampa Hermosa sanctuary is part of the Bosques de Neblina-Selva Central Biosphere Reserve. It has a total extension of 60,000 hectares.
Montane Forests of the Eastern Cordillera Real
The eastern Cordillera Real montane forests (WWF name) is an ecoregion of montane rainforest and Andean forest of the Neotropical ecozone that extends along the eastern flank of the northern Andes.
It constitutes the Upper Amazon of Ecuador and extends from southern Colombia to northern Peru.
Due to their latitude they make up the equatorial mountain jungle, also called the mountain eyebrow. It is a strip of great biodiversity located between the equatorial Andes and the Amazon plain.
Several scientists consider that it contains the greatest floristic richness of any area of similar size. In Peru, it crosses the Andes reaching the Pacific slope, ranging from the Andean forest of Piura, passing through the north of Cajamarca to the high jungle of the Amazon border, where the Cordillera del Cóndor stands out.
It has an extension of 10,250 hectares.
Pagaibamba Protection Forest in Cajamarca
The Pagaibamba Protection Forest is located in the Pachacútec peasant community, in the Querocoto district of the Chota province, Cajamarca department in Peru, between 2,400 and 3,732 meters above sea level.
In its fields there are spectacled bears and wild guinea pigs and it is bathed by the Huamboyacu river. It has a wooded vegetation.
Among its main objectives is conserving the soil and protecting the forest as a regulating factor of the hydrological and climatic cycle of the area to avoid sedimentation of the rivers and guarantee the water supply to the districts of Querocoto, Huambos and Llama. It has an extension of 2,078.38 hectares.
Marañón Dry Forest in Cajamarca
The Marañón Dry Forest (WWF) is a large tropical dry forest ecoregion found in the northwestern Andes of Peru. It extends through the valley of the upper Marañón and some tributaries.
It is an area of high endemism in birds. Together with the Tumbes-Piura dry forest, it is included within a larger ecoregion, the equatorial dry forest, as defined by Antonio Brack Egg. It has an extension of 11,400 km2