The lowland forest of El Impenetrable National Park in northern Argentina sprawls across the hot, swampy green of the Gran Chaco biome, home to South America’s largest mammals and thousands of plant species. It’s a critical conservation unit for the protection of one of the planet’s most deforested ecosystems, yet it’s missing an important resident: […]
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Giant River Otters of The Rio Tres Irmaos (Three Brothers River)
By the 1970’s the number of Giant Otters found South America had fallen dramatically. Mainly due to a demand for their pelts, deforestation, and human disturbance. By the time we travelled in 2008 to the Peruvian Amazonian rain forest, they had become an endangered species. On that occasion we travelled by canoe up the Las Piedras River. […]