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Central Brazil and Pantanal Travel: An Introduction

A quick overview of Brazil’s central region.

Diving in the Abismo Anhumas Cavern, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul

Abismo Anhumas, a cavern near Bonito in Mato Grosso, was discovered in the late 1970s when a fire stripped the land's surface. The chamber expands into a space as big as a soccer field.

Pantanal: Volunteer Travel Program Helps Save Jaguars

Earthwatch runs more trips to the Fazenda Rio Negro in the Pantanal each year than any of its many global destinations. Little wonder, given that the 210,000-square-kilometer haven of lakes, rivers and waterways teems with one of the greatest concentrations of tropical wildlife in the whole of Latin America.

Pantanal Life: Sparkplug Ignites Cross Border Activism

To the uninitiated, Porto Murtinho may seem like the middle of nowhere – or simply the end of the road. A well-paved Brazilian interstate ends here. No bridge connects it across the river to Paraguay. A few bait shops and the squalid shacks of a displaced Indian tribe dot the opposite bank. Beyond the reservation lies the vast expanse of the Gran Chaco, a bioregion as remarkable for its diversity as for its hostility to humans... Yet many consider this paradise – or at least the gateway to it. Clemencia Bitancourt Donatti found another reality and went about changing it.

Pantanal: Me and Teddy Visit the Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt inspires my answers to two questions I often hear: “Where’s the best place in the Amazon to see wildlife?” and “Where’s the best place in the Amazon to go fishing?” On the 1913-14 expedition that became known as his Amazon journey, the 26th president of the United States first traversed the Pantanal. So I reference him to justify my singular answer to those Amazon travel questions: “The Pantanal,” I respond.

Hyacinth Macaw Project: Saving Endangered Birds in the Pantanal

Since a lone biologist named Neiva Guedes launched the Hyacinth Macaw Project 14 years ago, the population has jumped from 1,500 to 5,000 in the 450,000-hectare region it oversees. Visitors can accompany the project’s work at the Refúgio Ecológico Caiman, a benchmark ecolodge and nature reserve in the Pantanal.