Wildlife Focus is a new website for wildlife and nature lovers everywhere, offering unique, high-quality multimedia content to transport you into the deepest, darkest rainforests of South America – all with the click of a mouse!

Webcam in the Forest: 'Puro' Webcam

We are proud to present our first Webcam in the Forest - the ‘Puro’ webcam, which shows streaming wildlife footage from the breathtaking and remote tropical forest of  Fundación Jocotoco’s Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador.

The webcam is situated in a prime position to film the incredible variety of birds that come to visit strategically placed feeders in the reserve.

If you are lucky you could also catch a glimpse of two species of Toucans and the endearing Coati on the platform behind the bird feeder.

Learn more about how the webcam is working here

Learn more about the Buenaventura Reserve on the World Land Trust website.

Win a week's holiday in Ecuador!

As soon as the webcam connection has been upgraded (hopefully this week) and the cam is back online, we will be launching an exciting competition to win a week's accommodation at the beautiful Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador. All you have to do to win is identify the 33rd species of hummingbird when it comes to the feeder – in other words a species which has not been spotted there before. To help you out, the competition will be timed to coincide with new functionality added to the webcam allowing you to take live "snap shots" of the action as well as an online 'hummer identification guide' to help you spot the elusive species. Keep checking back for details!

The webcam is offline as we are working on the internet connection at Buenaventura

We have decided to relocate the satellite dish at Buenaventura to increase the internet speed we have at the reserve. For the past few months the connection has been fluctuating between 56kb and 126kb (depending on the weather). This has made it almost impossible to achieve direct live streaming and the reason why we have been working with Germán. The plan is that with a relocation plus a few tweaks we will be able to get the speed to between 512 / 1024kb allowing us to stream the footage directly from the forest. In the mean time we will be playing highlights of the last month to keep people entertained until we are back on line.

"As human beings we are more urbanised than ever before and we are out of touch with the natural world - yet we are 100% dependent on its resources. World Land Trust's new rainforest webcam is an extraordinary lifeline and communication with the natural world." Sir David Attenborough speaking at the launch of Wildlife Focus