CONAPAC, the Civil Association for Conservation of the Peruvian Amazon Environment, is an NGO formed in July 1990 in Iquitos, Peru, by a group of teachers, forestry engineers, and employees of the travel operator Exploraciones Amazonicas S.A.-- Explorama Lodges. Registered with the Peruvian government, its purpose is the conservation of the Peruvian Amazon primary rainforest. Though the staff is small, with the help of Explorama, it accomplishes much, serving those in the rainforest most in need of education and other tools for living sustainably.