Pantanal

Patsy Lozupone, Bruce M. Beehler, S. Dillon Ripley

"At more than twenty times the size of North America's Everglades, the Brazilian Pantanal is the world's largest wetland and a wilderness area of international significance. Caimans, giant otters, jaguars, tapirs, giant anteaters, capybaras, hyacinth macaws and jabirus are just some of the many bird and animal species that make their home in the Pantanal. With some of the most spectacular concentrations of wildlife on Earth, and rare and endangered species almost impossible to see elsewhere, the Pantanal is rapidly gaining worldwide recognition as a must visit wilderness region. The abundance and variety of the animal life and the unique cowboy culture of the Pantaneiros, the people of the Pantanal, have been captured through Theo Allofs' superb photography. The accompanying text is written by the scientists of Conservation International, who have for many years been studying the...

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