National Geographic Documentary

For those inthe US, Dec 12 National Geographic Channel is broadcasting the documentary about one of the most important naturalist George Schaller, that I had the honor to participate during the part of the show about the pantanal and jaguars.

Tour report

Check´s Claudia Pozzoli report from Italy of my last jaguar tour of the year. http://pantanalnorte2009.blogspot.com/

Marion and John

Black collared antear spotted along the transpantaneira parkway.

Green Iguana

Giant otter taking a sunbath

Marion and John with Maria and Carmindo, another happy and sucsseful tour

September tour

This is one of the 10 jaguars spotted in this tour, took alot of work, patience and persistence.

Los 3 amigos, Shaun Bacon and Graham from Australia and Carmindo at his place on the Pirigara river, we camp for 10 days searching for jaguars

Some spotted I have to push the boat.

Shaun getting shots of a jaguar that was resting under the shade. We were sitting there for about 6 hrs

Giant otters

Ian and Jo´s tour

Male and female posing for us

Another female of 4 spotted during this tour

After 2:30 hours observing a jaguar and tosting under the 40°c sun, a break for lunch and a refreshing swim in the 3 Irmãos river.

Ian, Jo from UK and ms. Anaconda that we saw along the transpantaneira.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=151099
Check Joana´s report.

Rudy´s dream

Rudy Edlund from Buffalo(USA) told me that getting a picture of a jaguar was his dream, I´m very glad his dream came true, this guy was taking a good rest in the end of the day.

This is the first jaguar we spotted resting at Cuiabá river bank, we watched this jaguar for about 4:30hrs, took us patience, luck and persistence, it paid off.

Me and Rudy the last day in Porto Jofre, thanks you for trusting my judgements, everything was just great.

Tour with Julien and Kim

I just finished a tour with Julien and Kim from Luxemburg. This is one of the jaguar we spotted while patrolling his territory, we followed this guy for about 30 min

Julien at work. Check his page:

http://www.pbase.com/jboule/pantanal_norte This is another male spotted at first day taking a rest at the beach, it is very important to keep some distance, this way we are able to have more time with them, cats like space, in my jaguar tours I´m very concern about it, to respect their space.

In the end of the tour I took Kim and Julien for a flight over the pantanal, with us was my great friend Lilito the best bush pilot in the pantanal that owns the plane and give me the honor to fly it.