Unforgettable
private tours
in South America
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Welcome to the Focus Tours Home Page!
We are not your normal nature tour company. Our President and Founder, Douglas Trent, started Focus Tours in 1981 as Brazil’s first professional nature tour company. With his life goals of getting people out of poverty and preserving nature, he saw this as a way to raise fund for projects to accomplish these goals.
From 1981 to 2013, Douglas guided tours nine months of each year, first in Brazil and then including Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and a few African countries. With the success of the Jaguar Ecological Reserve community ecotourism program on the Transpantaneira (now sustaining over 50 local families) he was able to get corporate funding for larger programs, specifically the Pantanal Wildlife Program, Bichos do Pantanal, with funding from Petrobras. With Forbes magazine recognizing Douglas as Brazil’s Birdman, he continues to guide bird watching and nature tours.
Today, Douglas guides all our tours, which are small group, high quality excursions in the Pantanal, the Amazon and other destinations on request. We limit our tours to four participants in a boat, so all can sit in the front seats, and we carry a gas grill for remote lunches. We include all meals and all drinks, with a sunset Happy Hour observed in stunning places. We have access to remote areas in the Pantanal that we visit in a 4X4 double cab pickup and limit our tours to just 3 participants with Douglas driving and guiding. We continue to operate tours for a number of foreign nature tour companies, and they set the group size.
Check out the videos and other news coverage we have received as well as the interview with Douglas by Dr. Jon Coulis. Get in touch with us if you want a high-quality nature tour in the areas we offer, and other places we used to visit regularly.
About Focus Tours
Focus Tours is a professional nature tour company that also works with local communities to get people out of poverty and preserve nature. Much is done with tour profits and our sponsored partnerships with NGOs in the USA and Brazil.
Learn about our research and projects
Working with research, environmental education and social economic development, we can move into a more sustainable world. See what we have done and can do!
LIBRARY.
NEWS.
Meet Brazil's Birdman
Forbes
A one man gang. No foreigner knows Brazilian birds like this man.
Douglas Trent Continues to Promote Sustainability Throughout Brazil
The Rio Times
The American ecologist runs the oldest nature tour company in Brazil (founded in 1981), ... Focus Tours, alongside an NGO, ‘Focus Conservation Fund,’ ...
Finding Jaguars and more in Brazil’s Pantanal
An informative article about the Pantanal Wildlife Program in the Santa Fe New Mexican press
Pantanal Wildlife
Program
The incredible work on monitoring and identifying the Pantanal Wildlife
In Portuguese