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Ecotourism
Ecologically sustainable tourism or, more generally, ecological tourism is a slowly emerging activity, which has mainly expanded in Southern Pantanal, a more developed region offering also a wider range of infrastructures.
Pousadas and Fazendas can offer lodging to the 'eco-tourists', who are usually given a choice of activities such as bird-watching, or more generally watching the animals in their natural habitats, horse riding, hiking, canoeing and trekking.
Eco-tourism has been identified as one economic activity that can support conservation of the natural environment providing, at the same time, benefits to the local population.