Our staff sets us apart from other local outfitters. With Ecoexplorer, adventure tours are guaranteed to include a respected local naturalist, who is committed to giving you outstanding customer service and the trip of your life.

To increase your overall educational opportunities, the ECOEXPLORER management carefully selects only highly qualified local naturalists and outdoors people. Our guides are compassionate, knowledgeable, and experienced naturalists. Guides provide information on birds, natural history, botany, animal behavior, and conservation in general. All guides employed by the company or contracted through associates are qualified and accredited in their particular area. All guides are first-aid trained. We can also arrange particular interest qualified staff for special interests. We have guides fluent in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, and Portuguese.
From operational bases in Cuiabá and Coxim in the Pantanal region, and from Porto Velho in the Amazon, our multilingual guides lead each expedition. Our guides bring along all the equipment necessary for an ideal expedition including binoculars, spotlights for night viewing and the appropriate bird, mammal, and reptile field guides.

Read on to find out why Ecoexplorer guides are truly among the best in the region or at each destination.

CARLOS has spent most of his 45 years in Constant fascination with the diverse ecosystems of his tropical homeland. This pasion has led him to explorer extensively the Amazon and Pantanal ecosystems and is well acquainted with the flora and fauna of these regions. As na experienced naturalist guide and explorer, Carlos is able to lead birding trips, educational and informative natural history tours in the Amazon and Pantanal regions of Brasil. He also leads tours in the Esteros Del Ibera marsh lands in Argentina, Amazon and Pampas of Bolívia, and in the peruvian Amazon. Some of his tours takes you to magical places off the beaten path and away from crowds.
Carlos is an active member of various social and environmental projects in the Amazon region, he supports and encourages these projects with his time, expertise and or finances while not guiding trips.
Fluently speaks Italian, Spanish, English and of course Portuguese.
He is a great companion in the field, and his cheerful enthusiasm is felt by all.
Carlos is currently based in Cuiabá, Capital of Mato Grosso.

PEDRO PAULO is a native from Cuiabá (MT) and has been guiding birding and nature tours throughout the Pantanal for more than 10 years.
He knows the best hotspots and places to do successful birding and wildlife viewing. Pedro is a passionate ornithologist who grew up among the wetlands of the northern Pantanal. His expertise in the region is surpassed only by his extensive knowledge of the flora and fauna unique to this wilderness. His love for nature has also extended his expertise in the region of the Amazon jungle.
He will provide interesting information not only on birds, but also local history, botany, animal behavior, and conservation in general. Pedro speaks English, Spanish, and a little German and, of course, Portuguese. Pedro lives with his wife and kids in Cuiabá.

FLAVIO. Originally from the Amazon, Flavio moved to Cuiabá 15 years ago. After 5 years of formal training as a tour guide, he has been guiding nature tours throughout the Pantanal for the last 10 years.
Flavio takes great pleasure in sharing his understanding of the wildlife and local way of life with his tour participants.
Birders and wildlife enthusiasts are sure to enjoy Flavio’s specialized knowledge and abilities to locate some of the Pantanal’s most elusive species.
His familiarity with the habitats, behavior, and instincts of native birds and wildlife make him na incredible source of information and ideal guide for those who seek up-close viewing opportunities, yet want to respect the natural boundaries of all life in the Pantanal. Flavio speaks English as well as Portuguese.

PRETO is a native of São Carlos (a small village along the Rio Madeira) he grew up in the surrounding rainforest and learned much of the amazon and its wildlife from his father and other village elders.His knowledge of the jungle and its plants and animals is unsurpassed. Seeing Preto scrambling up trees after sloths, or capturing snakes will impress most evryone. Preto accompanies all our Amazon Jungle Expeditions.He takes good care of everyone on our Amazon expeditions and contributes greatly to the quality of the tour.

ANTONIO AND ELIANA
This Husband and wife team spent their childhood living in aremote Indian village in the heart of the Amazon. Their love for the local environment brought them together 19 years ago, and has produced 4 adorable children. Gaining their initial knowledge from the wisdom of the elders of their vilagge, we have been fortunate enough to take advantage of this knowledge and gained from this experience. They have passionately been guilding trips together in the Amazon for 12 years. Their friendly and easygoing personalities provide for a relaxing and enjoyable experience, and they enjoy and appreciate every adventure as much as their guests.