Rainforest | James Borrell

50 Million Trees and Counting….

Communities around the world turn to Trees for the Future for technical knowledge and planting materials so that they can bring degraded lands and struggling farmlands back to sustainable productivity.

The Amazon (part 2)

Many of the local people had once been hunters, regaling us with stories of their fearsome face-to-face encounters with the Jaguar.

The Amazon (part 1)

A spotlight burst into life, momentarily panning across the far bank, before returning us to darkness. Adolfo slipped the blade of his hand carved hardwood paddle into molasses coloured water, adjusting the course of our dugout canoe with precision developed over a lifetime plying these waters.

In Praise of the Little Guy

Have you ever heard of the ‘Big 5′?

Supposedly the five African animals most difficult and dangerous to hunt on foot. Unfortunately, it’s more a marketing term aimed at tourists than anything else.

A little clip from the Amazon

Chester Carr, a friend of mine from the Amazon has put together a great little video of our time there last year, it’s well worth a look.

Friday Photo: Red Bellied Piranah

There’s lots of fish in the Amazon. One with perhaps the most impressive reputation is the Piranha. To bust a popular myth, no they’re not..

9 Do’s and Don’ts for living in the Amazon

I’ve barely scratched the surface of rainforest living, with two expeditions adding up to only a couple of months. Nevertheless the learning curve was huge

A small corner of the Amazon

If I were to say the word ‘rainforest’ what normally springs to mind is an endless expanse of untamed wilderness..

Friday Photo: Adolfo

Without the help and support of local field guides, our work in the Amazon simply could not have happened. This is Adolfo, aged 64, he comes from a village on the edge of the Pacaya-Samiria reserve..