Jaguar Research Center

The only lodging inside the 270,000-acre (1,090 sq  km) Meeting-of-the-Waters Park in north Pantanal,  JRC is a combination of spacious tented camp and house boat.  The camp features eight 4m x 5m, electricity-equipped tents, each with private bathrooms, electricity, and wireless internet.  The house boat is a twin deck, 5m x 16 m craft with two air-conditioned cabins, each with its own hot-shower bathroom.  The boat’s roofed, open-sided upper level is an ideal observation deck for scanning vast, uninhabited stretches of the Pantanal for the world’s largest Jaguars as well as for Giant Otters and other wildlife.  All 23 groups of guests who in 2006 and 2007 gave us three 8-am-to-6-pm days in June through October were successful in spying wild Jaguars, often from distances of only 6-20 m.   No other company in the world can compete with us in the slightest either for Jaguars or for deep Pantanal.

Pantanal Wildlife Center

Quite likely the Pantanal’s leading wildlife lodge, PWC is an air-conditioned, 13-room hotel found only two hours by all-season road from the major jetport of Cuiabá. The lodge is ideally located on the banks of the narrow, wildlife-rich Pixaim River, the only navigable body of water on the Transpantaneira Road until its terminus at the mighty São Lourenço (or Cuiabá) River, the site of JRC. The Transpantaneira is the only year-round road that penetrates the core of the Pantanal. PWC is the only wildlife lodge in Brazil owned and operated by an internationally-known, PhD conservation biologist and National Geographic author. The lodge offers high speed, wireless internet, the Pantanal’s only electric photo catamarans, the world’s only observation towers at nests of Jabiru Stork and Great Potoo, the Pantanal’s only mobile observation towers at other nests or at fruiting and flowering trees, and a series of other unique features that combine the best of field research, wildlife filmmaking, and hospitality.