Ecuador
The Bilsa Reserve
Located in the Mache Mountains in the northwestern coastal province of Esmeraldas, in Ecuador, the Bilsa Biologica...
03
Aug
Blog
03
Aug
Costa Rica
Pearson Rainforest Reserve
Pearson, the world’s leading education publishing company teamed up with CTF to create The Pearson Rainfo...
03
Aug
Thailand
The Khao Nor Chuchi Reserve
Khao Nor Chuchi located in Krabi provence, is one of the few remaining areas of intact lowland rainfores...
03
Aug
Colombia
The Guaybero-Cocodrilo Reserve, La Macarena
Over the following weeks we will be publishing a series of short instalments which will pr...
04
Jan
Donna Vitoria Da Riva Carvalho – a remarkable woman!
Donna Vitoria Da Riva Carvalho is a remarkable woman! Since 1990, she has been responsible, almost single-handedly, for buying and preserving 26,000 acres of pristine Amazonian rainforest at its very vulnerable Southern edge.
06
Dec
In the company of Capybaras
So as I sat here earlier this evening, looking at a huge Amazon flat fish being barbecued on an open fire in preparation for an alfresco supper, somebody with sharper eyes than me detected two large and two not so large shapes dimly lit up by the fire.
03
Dec
A treeful of toucans (part 2)
We stood on the huge tower, the sky gradually cleared and lightened as we scrutinised the myriad treetops and over the next three hours or so – while we swayed gently at the top of our tower – the Cristalino forest revealed an extravaganza of treasures. We had a very lucky morning!
02
Dec
A treefull of toucans
I finally reached the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest, stretching like a green wall on either side of our straight red road. A further fifteen minute drive through a green tunnel saw the road suddenly incline sharply down to the edge of the Teres Pires river
01
Dec
First night jitters
Cristalino Jungle Lodge
Matto Grosso
Brazil
I lay awake in my luxury bed, in my luxury room, it's about 2 o'clock in the morning and I...
30
Nov
Stroking a two-toed sloth
It’s a long way from Warwick Parkway Station in the West Midlands to Rio Cristalino Jungle lodge at the Northern edge of the huge Central Brazilian State of Matto Grosso. And it takes a three-day journey to get you there – to what is now the Southern edge of the vast Amazon Rainforest.