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13,000 acres of cloud forest now protected in Colombia

Lillie Howell 16 Mar 2017

Failed economic development plans drive deforestation in Andean Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 20 Oct 2016

Bolivian expedition discovers 1,000th bird species

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Jul 2016

Poaching upsurge threatens South America’s iconic vicuña

Rachel Nuwer 24 Nov 2015

Partnerships are key to The Wildlife Conservation Society’s new conservation strategy

Mike Gaworecki 21 Oct 2015

New study argues ‘land sparing’ is better for the birds

Jeremy Hance 12 Oct 2015

New reserves in Colombia protect endangered species in a ‘Pleistocene refuge’

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2015

Migration between Peruvian Andes and Amazon impacts both environments

Saul Elbein 21 Aug 2015

Jhuliño’s legacy: Life and death on the Marañon River (photo essay)

Saul Elbein 16 Jul 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Scaling bottom-up conservation in Latin America

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jul 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

Proposed Andean headwater dams an ecological calamity for Amazon Basin

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2015

Recently discovered ‘punkrocker’ frog changes skin texture in minutes

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Apr 2015

Lima to restore pre-Incan aqueducts to alleviate its water crisis

Ariel Mark 16 Apr 2015

Study finds abandoned pasture is ‘a huge resource that is not being harnessed’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Apr 2015

Study finds Peru’s protected areas aren’t where they should be

Apoorva Joshi 25 Feb 2015

Critically endangered bird gets new addition to its reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Feb 2015

Scientists rediscover endangered Andean toad in Ecuador

Joanna Parkman 30 Jan 2015

Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find ‘extinct’ cat-sized mammal

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

A paradise being lost: Peru’s most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Aug 2014

Rare bird paradise protected in war-torn Colombian mountain range (photos)

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2014

Is REDD+ bad for wildlife? New study says lowland forest protection bias unfair, urges change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Jun 2014

Scientists uncover new species of Andean marsupial frog

Jordanna Dulaney 5 Mar 2014

Key highland habitat for rare condor protected in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2014

Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests, home to thousands of species found nowhere else

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Featured video: ‘this is day one for the olinguito’

Jeremy Hance 4 Sep 2013

Meet the BABY olinguito

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2013

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2013

Peruvian night monkey threatened by vanishing forests, lost corridors

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

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