60 % of the Peruvian territory is covered by forests. Of that area more than 50 % corresponds to Amazonian rainforest. Manu scientists describe the Amazon as the heart of the planet, as this immense forest provides gigantic amounts of water pumping it from the subsoil. How so? Trees transport water from their roots to their leaves and, in them, evacuate to the atmosphere. This moisture emitted by the trees is called the “flying rivers”, streams of water that the trees throw into the atmosphere bringing rain to Brazil and regions of neighboring countries such as Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina. This contribution of water to the atmosphere equals 20 million tons of water a day, more than the Amazon River pours into the Atlantic daily! The Amazon forest provides us with a great variety of environmental services, being the Amazon a perfect machine that regulates the climate of the entire planet. In addition, to its role as a climate regulator, the Amazon is an inexhaustible source of biodiversity. It is estimated to contain more than 5 million species of fauna, of which we have only begun to discover a small fraction. In a single hectare of Amazonian forest, we find more varieties of trees than in all of Europe and North America combined, and a single tree can be home to more than 5,000 species of insects.