The Indigenous community-owned Chalalán Ecolodge offers family adventures and rare wildlife encounters in the Bolivian Amazon. We heard the snorts first, echoing like gunshots through the sauna-thick ...

The world's largest rodent, the capybara, is within my reach. The size of a small pig, the snout-faced animal perches on the banks of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Amazon Basin. It stands still. "They ...

The real-life hero of adventure film Jungle helped set up an ecolodge in Bolivia’s Madidi national park – a wild destination for trekkers, and a ray of light for a hunter-gatherer community under ...

The wooden platform looked out onto a teardrop-shaped lake a mile across, set in the centre of thick jungle. Siobhan dived in first and swam towards the middle. I followed her into the green velvety ...

In order to generate income from their forest homes without chopping them down, setting fire to them or polluting them with oil slicks, these tribes have created small-scale ecolodges. They raise a ...

We heard the snorts first, echoing like gunshots through the sauna-thick air. Then eight heads jack-in-the-boxed out of the lake near our dugout canoe. "Wow, giant otters!" whispered Gilder Macuapa, ...