Until 26 May 2017, serious nature travelers spending even an entire week in lodges in the remotest, wildest corners of the Amazon (for instance, Manu River, Upper Tambopata River, Heath River, Las Piedras River) had a one-in-a-thousand chance of seeing and photographing this majestic raptor.


All that has changed, for thanks to our new, unique method of locating Harpy Eagle nests, in one part of Brazil, we now have 35 Harpy nests in our conservation tourism system. Our method of discovering Harpy nests relies on an extensive network of paid informants who work in vast tracts of tall Amazon forest in an area half the size of the UK. Most of these informants are Brazil nut collectors, who differ in one extremely important way from nut collectors in most of the Amazon, namely our informants do not hunt. This felicitous exception makes it possible for us to learn about Harpy nests where the adult birds already are very accustomed to the sight and sounds of humans.