Run by a local entrepreneur, Inkaterra showcases Peru’s incredible natural and cultural heritage and uses luxury ecotourism to preserve it. The focus of its work is in the protected cloud forest at Aguas Calientes outside Machu Picchu (whose gardens are home to one of the world’s largest collection of orchids) and at a private reserve (with 35 luxury thatched roof cabanas and a canopy treehouse) in the heart of the Amazon, which protects over 17,000 hectares of primary tropical forest from deforestation, locking in several million tonnes of carbon.
Presented on the "Guardian Green Travel List 2010 - http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/content/green-travel-list-full-0