Amazon Tours and Expeditions in Brazil

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December 2nd, 2010

Climate change and consequences for Brazil


Floods, extremely harsh winters, heat waves and increasingly strong hurricanes in many parts of the world show that the climate has got out of control for some time. According to a forecast of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released yesterday, these phenomena will be more likely in coming decades. 2010 already was the hottest year ever recorded, but in the next the thermometer will rise even more. ...more



November 3rd, 2010

Rivers of the Amazon region rising again after century's drought


Manaus - The rivers Rio Negro and Solimões are rising slowly again after they had fallen on October 24th to the lowest level ever recorded in 1902. With a level of 13.63 meters the Rio Negro was even under the previous negative record of 13.64 meters in 1963. ...more



September 12th, 2010

Jaú Nationalpark cabin boat tour


Dear friends of the Amazon,

we wish to inform you that we are operating from Nov12 through Nov19, 2010 our tour to the Jaú Nationalpark. We will be traveling aboard a typical Amazona cabin boat, which makes the voyage a bit more comfortable. The minimum group size required is 6 and the maximum is 8 people.

The price will be: Euro 1150-1550 per person.

The system is all-in, that is all transfers, Hotel and city tour Manaus, qualified guiding during the whole trip, day and night excursions on the rivers and in the forest, full board, beverages, including beers, is included.

We will also be doing a tour at the same time in a smaller boat, with a more adventurous touch. Overnight is in tents or hammocks. This tour is priced at : Euro 900 per person, all in, with a minimum of 3 traveles required. The maximum is 4.

For more information please click here.

Please also refer to the travelogues with interesting comments about our last trip our see our other tours and expeditions in Amazonia

We are ready to take your reservation at any time, until September 10 including 10% discount. We are prepared to answer your questions whenever they arise.


The team of Amazon Travel Brazil



July 21st, 2010

New insect species found during expedition in Amazonia


Manaus - Scientists at the Brazilian Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) found during an expedition at least 65 species of insects that had never been seen in nature. The first estimate represents only a small part of what can still be found among the more than 100 000 insects they collected during their voyage, since the process of analyzing and cataloging species can take years and lacks specialists. ...more



January 25th, 2010

Just discovered Tamarin in Amazonia already threatened with extinction


Scientists found in the Amazon forest a new small specie of ape, whose habitat is threatened by building projects now. The discovery of the 23 cm long and only 213 gram heavy little monkey was published by the Wildlife Conversation Society (WCS) in New York in the International Journal of Primatology by the authors Fábio Rohe, José de Sousa e Silva Jr, Ricardo Sampaio and Anthony Rylands. ...more



November 15th, 2009

Brazilian Government restricts real estate of foreigners in Amazonia


According to a bill of the Brazilian government, that president Lula still has to submit to the congress for investigation, at the most 10% of the surface of the region of the Legal Amazon may in future be owned by foreigners. Presently the figure is maximum 25% independent of the region. ...more



Mai 2nd, 2009

Ticuna Indians fight their own crime


According to the Manaus newspaper "A Crítica", Ticuna Indians from the community Umariau II in Tabatinga, State of Amazonas, have established recently a vigilante service to fight crime within their own ranks. The aim is to prevent the entry of alcoholic beverages into the region as well as drug consumption and drug trafficking. ...more



April 3rd, 2009

Amazon farmers should receive money to compensate the preservation of the forest


On a meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Environment Carlos Minc in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, the governors of the Amazonian Federal States declared today that foreign countries should pay both small farmers and great land owners of the region for the preservation of the Amazonian Rain Forest. ...more



July 28th, 2008

Pico da Neblina The Pico da Neblina

Pico da Neblina mountain –
Expedition into deep Amazonia!


After a period of suspense caused by government restrictions, we are proud to inform that we have re-iniciated our Pico da Neblina operations with regular departures. ...more



Juni 2nd, 2008

Als Köder genutzte Kaimane Caimans, killed by hunters, which should serve as baits (Marina de Brito/Instituto Mamirauá)

Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA accuses: killed caimans and river dolphins serve as baits for illegal fishing in Amazonia

According to information from the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA, Colombian fishermen pay Brazilian hunters in the western Amazonia for killing river dolphins and caimans, which shall serve as baits for the illegal catch of Piracatingas (Calophysus macropterus), a species of catfish. Up to know it is unknown, how many animals die all in all thereby per year since the largest part of the catfish is smuggled to Colombia. ...more



May 15th, 2006

US-students on educational journey in Brazil


In February 2006 we have been visited by a group of 16 students with their professors from the economic faculty of the University of Virginia (UVA). The voyage was themed "The Business of Saving Nature". ...more



April 18th, 2006

Der Amazonensische Regenwald The Amazon rainforest

Brazilian government to increase Amazon rainforest protection


Brazil's Ministry of Environment said during the eighth meeting of the Conference on Biodiversity (COP 8) which took place end of March 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil, it would declare more 81,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest a protected area in the next three years. ...mehr



September 6th, 2005

Artificial insemination of fish
by Tukano Indians


Together, Scientist and Indios, elaborate solutions for conservation of the fish population at the upper Rio Negro