Dear Refúgio Ecológico Caiman,
I have been working with Jaguars in the Rio Cuiabá area of the northern Pantanal since 2007. Paul Brooke and I have recently authored a book on the Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal that will be released in a couple of months ….. https://www.elsevier.com/books/jaguars-of-the-northern-pantanal/brooke/978-0-12-822138-9 

I am also a co-author of the new edition of The Jaguar Guide published by the Jaguar Identification Project, a project to identify all of the Jaguars using the Rio Cuiabá area where so much Jaguar tourism is now located.

For six seasons I worked as the jaguar biologist/naturalist for the ecotourism company SouthWild on their flotel in the Rio Cuiabá area, and during the 2019 season I worked with Pousada Piuval and the Millennium Yacht in the same area. My arrangement with those other companies was to give evening presentations to the guests on Jaguars and other Pantanal wildlife, maintain a photo guide to the Jaguars and help identify Jaguars for the guests, and help with guiding on the rivers. In exchange, I was provided with free lodging and meals, and, most importantly, the opportunity to go out in the small boats whenever there was space. 

This coming season I am interested in trying to work in the south Pantanal. I am currently working on a more general book on Pantanal wildlife, and would like more experience with that area, I am looking for an ecotourism operator with whom I can work. I know the Refúgio Ecológico Caiman from a long time ago, when I visited there in 1988. Would you be interested in having me based at Refúgio Ecológico Caiman for June, July, and August of this year?  Your hotel seems to host more Jaguar tourists than any other company in the area, and I would be happy to provide nightly presentations for them and do whatever else I could to help.

Please let me know if you are interested.

Sincerely,

Paul Donahue
