Ignacio Yúfera

Ignacio Yúfera was born in Madrid in 1968, and has spent periods of his life in France, Canada, and Panama, where he currently lives. He finds it kind of silly when people speak of themselves in the third person.

Right now his main area of interest is the Neotropic (Central and South America plus the Caribbean), after years of traveling through Africa, Europe and North America (mostly western Canada). After moving to Panama Ignacio founded Tamandúa nature & photo tours, and lead trips throughout the country. His company owns and manages a 103-hectare cloud forest reserve & lodge in Panama's western highlands, where they conduct their photography workshops and tours.

His work is regularly published in numerous magazines, including BBC Wildlife, the Handbook of the Birds of the World and Handbook of the Mammals of the World, as well as the usual newspapers, travel books and wildlife tour company brochures. His images are marketed through the agencies FLPA (UK) and Biosphoto (France). Ignacio is the author of Birds of Morocco, a coffee-table book published in French, Arabic and English editions, with a foreword by Morocco’s Royal Princess Lalla Hasnaa.