📋 Tender Overview
Soul fee, tireless professional, eternal friend.With deep regret, the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp) dismisses one of its most valuable guardians of the natural heritage of Peru: Ing. Walter Orlando Herrera Carmona, who left eternity on April 13, 2025.
Walter was not only a committed professional, he was a human pillar, a generous man, passionate about wildlife, for the forests, rivers and communities that he embraced with dedication for more than 40 years of service to the protected natural areas, especially in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, his second home.
Since his entry in July 1980 as an environmental specialist in Pacaya Samiria, Walter drew an exemplary path. He led technical and conservation processes from the reserved area Gueppi to the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve, contributing not only knowledge, but also humanity and delivery. Those who shared with him the football court, a patrol or a field day, know that his smile and his timely word were part of their personal seal.
He was a boss, he was a partner, he was a teacher, he was a friend. In the 90s, he led with energy and conviction processes that are today part of the technical foundations of our protected natural areas in the Loreto region. In 2007, he assumed a new challenge with his colleagues at the Headquarters of the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, where he helped rebuild key processes for conservation and left an indelible mark. Then, in the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve, his contribution was again decisive.
He was also a voice, a member of Loretos polyphonic choir, Walter had not only talent for science and technique, but also artistic sensibility and a spirit that sang strongly by nature.
Today, the National System of Protected Natural Areas loses a great professional, but above all to a great exceptional human being. To your family, we extend our deepest condolences. His legacy remains alive in each preserved hectare, in each protected species and in the heart of those who had the honor of knowing him and sharing the way with him.
Rest in peace, Walter. That the jungle wages you as one of its favorite children. That the river that you brows so much now in its current towards the perpetual light.
Until always, brother of nature.
