Our staff truly 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 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. They 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. Furthermore, all of them are first-aid trained. We can also arrange qualified staff for special interests. We have guides fluent in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, and Portuguese.

Our multilingual guides lead each expedition from operational bases in Cuiabá in the north Pantanal and Campo Grande in the south Pantanal. Guides bring along all the equipment necessary for an ideal expedition including binoculars, telescope, spotlights for night viewing and the appropriate bird, mammal, and reptile field guides. In addition, we offer each of our participants a personal checklist featuring the local Brazilian, common English and Latin names for the wildlife encountered during the trip. We intend to help participants not only enjoy and keep track of all they see, but also to become more fully informed about the animals and their behavior.
Read on to find out why Ecoexplorer guides are truly among the best in the entire Pantanal.

Read on to find out why Pantanal Ecoexplorer guides are truly among the best in the region.

Carlos

Carlos has been guiding for his whole life, raised in the Peruvian Amazon where his father was also a guide, Carlos first led tours around the jungle area of Iquitos. However on visiting Brazil the country captured his heart and since then has guided throughout the country as well as in the Pantanal region of Bolivia and the Esteros del Iberá wetlands of Argentina. For the past 15 years he has based himself in the Pantanal, running tours throughout this area and in doing so acquiring a thorough comprehension of the region and its people. His fascination with and knowledge of the flora and fauna of the region combined with his energy, good humour and enthusiasm for his work make him a highly sort after guide. He works with and supports several community and social projects in the Pantanal and Amazon regions and is a keen defender of the environments in which he works. Speaking English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian Carlos is completely involved in every trip he runs, guiding wherever possible and bringing his 5 year old son Matheus along on the family trips to help him with the wildlife spotting!

Flávio

Flávio comes from an Indian tribe and was raised in the Amazon. He came to the Pantanal 15 years ago and after 5 years of formal training has been guiding here for the past 10 years. He speaks English in addition to Portuguese and takes great pleasure in being able to share his understanding of the native wildlife and the local customs of his home. His familiarity with the behaviour and habits of the local birds and mammals make him an incredible source of information and an ideal guide for locating some of the Pantanals more elusive inhabitants. His ability to spot animals and identify them by their call make him a huge asset to any tour into the Pantanal.

Elder

Elder is originally from Sao Paulo where he studied and gained a deep understanding of the history and cultures of Brazil. He started off his guiding career in Florianopolis on Brazils Atlantic coast but after discovering the Pantanal has spent the past 15 years working as a wildlife guide in the region and is now studying for a degree in biology. Elder can therefore offer not just an insight into the wildlife and cultures of the Pantanal but of Brazil as a whole making any trip with him fascinating. Elder speaks English in addition to Portuguese.

Rosie

Rosie has worked in England as a travel consultant, managed campsites in Europe and worked as an overland tour guide in South America for the past 3 years. She therefore has a long experience working in tourism and an in-depth knowledge of South America. She speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Having traveled extensively throughout the Pantanal both as a tourist and a guide she has developed a great passion for the region and now manages the sales and promotional side of Pantanal Ecoexplorer working closely with Carlos in the creation of each tour.