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13 September 2025
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Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)

Hi all! As some of you may have gathered, I’m currently on a long backpacking trip in South America (unfortunately coming to an end this December). Over the next two months o

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10 September 2025

Advertising: Spectacled bear deluxe tour – January 2026, Ecuador

This tour offers an exceptional opportunity to observe the elusive spectacled bear, the only bear species native to South America in its most reliable habitats. The visited regions

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30 August 2025
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Spotted Cat Ecuador camera trap ID

Hello dear mammalwatchers! I am currently doing fieldwork in Ecuador in Andean bears (Tremarctos Ornatus) and  one of the camera traps caught a series of melanistic spotted cats.

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22 August 2025

Puma galore in Patagonia, May 2025

This is an illustrated report of my impressions of the Puma tracking tour in Patagonia, organized by www.wildlifewatchingexpeditions.com and guided by Mark Kaptein and Jillian Groe

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15 August 2025
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Finca Villa Barbara in northern Colombia, home to many amazing animals

I have the incredible luck to actually live in this place and wake up to the sound of birds and howler monkeys. Our small organic farm and nature reserve has a beautiful area of tr

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13 August 2025
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Brazil’s Pantanal: South

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5 August 2025
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Trip Report – Endemic Mammals of the Southern Cone – Royle Safaris – February 2025

In February 2025 Royle Safaris was once again in southern South America. One of our clients who has seen a member of every bird family in the world is now working his way through t

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11 July 2025

Mocoa, Putumayo – seeking advice

My friend and I are interested in traveling to the higher elevation/foothill areas of the Mocoa region, Putumayo in February 2026. We are wondering if anyone is familiar with how s

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11 July 2025
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Brazil April 2023 & 2025 Mata Atlantica

We pass 2 x 2 weeks in coastal east Brazil

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9 July 2025
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Easy capybaras at tourist sites? (Southern South America)

Hi all! I’m on a backpacking trip around South America, currently in Buenos Aires and thinking to head east or north from here. I understand that capybaras are very common at

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A short trip to Panama
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  1. JanEbr on Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)16 September 2025
  2. AlexS on Trip to Madagascar15 September 2025
  3. Sebastian Kennerknecht on Spotted Cat Ecuador camera trap ID15 September 2025

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  1. JanEbr on Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)16 September 2025

    It may be counterintuitive, but in particular if you are not alone (you mention your partner), renting a car IS…

  2. AlexS on Trip to Madagascar15 September 2025

    Some lemur species seen in Palmarium should not be on a trip list. They are not even close to their…

  3. Sebastian Kennerknecht on Spotted Cat Ecuador camera trap ID15 September 2025

    I agree with everyone else, based on body shape to tail ratio (and position): Northern oncilla, Leopardus tigrinus

  4. Simon Steiner on Best possibilitiy for Snow Leopard sighting in Ladakh in octobre (and other mammals in Northern India)15 September 2025

    @Vana, Thanks a lot for your comments and isea’s. We will certainly go to Ulley and take our chances. In…

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13 September 2025
Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)
11 September 2025
Tips for trip to Sumatra
10 September 2025
A short trip to Panama
10 September 2025
Georgia and Armenia, August 2025

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