This page is dedicated to Fernando V., Patricia V., Philippe F., Jorge N., and Gustavo Y.
South America spans some 6,800,000 square miles of some of the lushest tropical forests on earth. So signifigant is the deforestation that it is feared by conservationalists and scientists alike that if logging practices continue the effects felt worldwide will be catastrophic. The Amazon River and the lowland tropical forest it feeds contains the highest concentration of birdlife on the planet. Mankind's future remedies to A.I.D.S. and cancer may very well be just around a unexplored, undamaged, bend in the rain forest. Balancing industrialization with conservation so far has been largely unsuccessful as it has been where mass consumption meets nature. The very air we breath world wide may be at risk if this path of pillage nature now pay later continues unchecked. Perhaps recognizing this ecotourism is beginning to flourish here as well as world interest in preserving this natural wonder grows. There is much to discover in South America its people as diverse as its forests. Traveling here one can find the charms of "The Global World" and the wonders of "The World that time forgot".