Day 4

Hugo picked us up at 9, heading for the airport. Turned out that the flight back to Lima was delayed by 1.5 hrs. So we spent the time with coffee and making phone calls to the people we were scheduled to meet in Lima in the afternoon. Eventually the airplane arrived and again we had a spectacular flight.
Sr. Figueroa picked us up at the airport in Lima, and somehow we were just a few minutes late for our appointment with Deputy Environmental Minister Eduard Durand, who is in charge of the government's special climate change agency. Turned out that Sr. Durand was busy and asked us to return at 6 p.m. which gave us a little bit of time to pass by Hotel Senorial to dump our suitcases and freshen up a bit.
A little before 4 p.m. we entered OSINFOR (Organismo de Supervision de los Recursos Forestales y de Fauna Silvestre), the new Peruvian agency in charge of the rain forest, and the bold program to prevent deforestation. Its predecessor - no names - was dissolved, partly due to all the corruption.
Environmental minister Antonio Brack has put forward a plan to stop deforestation in just ten years. A bold plan, but OSINFOR's boss Dr. Richard Bustamante couldn't really explain how it would be done. Especially since there are only some 60 rain forest police...
In the evening, we decided to get a taste of the pollo de brasa of Lima. An upscale version of KFC. And of course a trip to the favorite grocery store, Vivenda, for some treats.