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Focus on Brazil


Brazil is a vast country with several distinctly different biomes. Discover them all with Focus Tours: Brazil

Focus on Argentina

The 8th largest country in the world, Argentina offers a wealth of experiences. From the subtropical rain forests of Iguazú Falls to the high Andes. Discover more with Focus Tours: Argentina 

Focus on Bolivia

Bolivia, nestled between Brazil, Peru, Chile and Paraguay, is the poorest and least developed country in South America, but also biologically and culturally the richest, safest and friendliest. Discover more with Focus Tours: Bolivia

Focus on Chile

Chile is the only truly temperate country in the Neotropics, and occupies more degrees of latitude than any other nation worldwide. Perhaps it is not surprising that Chile offers several extremes of the natural world. Discover more with Focus Tours: Chile

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Jaguar Tours

The northern Pantanal is the richest area in the world for spotting Jaguars in the wild and, our naturalist guides are some of the best. Together with our boatmen thye will take you into the best areas for jaguars and many other creatures. Read more about Jaguar Tours.

Bird Watching Tours

Douglas Trent is a scientist, bird watcher and wildlife photographer and his be operating Bird Watcing Tours for around two decades now. The tour possibilities in South America are many. Read more about Bird Watching Tours.

Wildlife Photography Tours

Douglas Trent is a wildlife photographer and guides groups of professional, or enthusiastc amateur, photographers and film crews on focused wildlife tours. Read more about Wildlife Photography Tours 

Funding Conservation

 

A percentage of our profits has been funding in-country conservation projects since 1981. They directly benefit the local communities we visit and, when possible, are self-sustable, generating benefits long after our initial donation. Your visit will benefit you, the environment and your hosts.

It you are interested in seeing and learning about wildlife and natural history, Focus Tours can help you get the tour you are looking for. Douglas B. Trent, Focus Tours' President, is an ecologist who has lived or spent much of each year in Brazil for over 30 years. He started Focus Tours in 1981 with the goal of using tourism  to alleviate poverty, for environmental education and to raise funds for conservation work. He guided around 200 days a year in various parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay for decades. Together with the experience of his other guides, we easily have operated more nature and birding tours in these areas than any of our competitors.

 

 

For the majority of our 30+ years of operating nature and birding tours, we have acted as the ground (inbound) operator for American and European nature and birding tours companies. We also offer our services directly to the public. This means you can take the same birding tours, with the same guides, often for substantially less expense. We are also able to offer you tours on your schedule, and design them to meet your specific needs. English-speaking naturalists guide all of our birding tours. They carry the equipment that will make a difference in how much you see: a spotting telescope, tape recorder and microphone to bring rare animals into view, and a powerful spotlight for night viewing. In addition, we provide checklists of the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of each area we tour, with common English and Latin names. These help tour participants not just keep track, but also learn the animals they see.

We invite you to take some time to browse through this site, and keep in mind that the schedule of tours does not cover all of what we will be offering; be sure to check back with us once you know when you would like to travel. and feel free to contact us to let us know what we can do for you in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile or Paraguay.