AlthoughYasuni National Park is one of largest and  most biological diverse reserves in the country, it is hardly protected with the exceptions of signs and rare ranger houses.

The park boasts also of lagoons with Jatuncocha the largest of them all located close to the border with Peru.

The park boasts of a continous primary rainforest, where trees form a closed canopy with some taller ones being emergent from this canopy.

Ceibo trees are the tallest trees found in the Ecuadorian rainforest reaching heights up to 45m. After flowering the trees produce wool which is used by the indigenous people for various purposes.

The Amazon Tapir is the largest land mammal in the country feeding on vegetation and being quite indefensive.

Heliconias, relatives of the banana, brighten the forest floor. They are found in open spaces like along rivers or near lagoons.

Reptiles are well represented by caimans and turtles.

Birds abound in this ecosystem with anhingas, parrots and caracaras shown here.

  Butterflies number in the thousands.

Other insects like wasps and bees are also numerous.

Transport is still on the rivers in dugouts or motorized canoes. On sandbanks  comfortable camp sites can be found.

Huaroani kids enjoy the river and a rare treat like looking through an enormous teleobjective.

A small Huaroani village on the river bank. A spider monkey is kept captive as a pet.

Many of the younger Huaoranis work nowadays in the oil camps, which also operate already in this national park.