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If you are interested in seeing and learning about wildlife and natural history, Focus Tours can help you get the tour you are looking for. Douglas B. Trent, Focus Tours' President, is an ecologist who lived in Brazil for over 11 years. He started Focus Tours in 1981 with the goal of using tourism for environmental education and to raise funds for conservation work. While living in Brazil, he guided around 200 days a year in various parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. Together with the experience of his business partner Alessandra Madile (Sales Manager), and our other two guides, we easily have operated more nature and birding tours in these areas than any of our competitors. For the majority of our nearly 25 years of operating nature and birding tours, we have acted as the ground (inbound) operator for American and European nature and birding tours companies. We also offer our services directly to the public. This means you can take the same birding tours, with the same guides, often for substantially less expense. We are also able to offer you tours on your schedule, and design them to meet your specific needs. English-speaking naturalists guide all of our birding tours. They carry the equipment that will make a difference in how much you see: a spotting telescope, tape recorder and microphone to bring rare animals into view, and a powerful spotlight for night viewing. In addition, we provide checklists of the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of each area we tour, with common English and Latin names. These help tour participants not just keep track, but also learn the animals they see. We invite you to take some time to browse through this site, and keep in mind that the schedule of tours does not cover all of what we will be offering; be sure to check back with us once you know when you would like to travel. and feel free to contact us to let us know what we can do for you in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile or Paraguay.