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Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes

Constance Malleret 27 Feb 2026
O. shunkusacha

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

Astrid Arellano 30 Dec 2025
Jay M Savage. Screenshot from an interview with OTS.

Jay M. Savage, witness to disappearing frogs and builder of tropical science

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2025

After a hiatus, an endemic plant bursts into life in Sri Lanka’s central hills

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Oct 2025
A screenshot of Carlos Zorrilla in 2023, explaining history of mining exploration in Ecuador. Footage by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

‘Mining companies will lie to your face’: Carlos Zorrilla on 30 years of fighting for Intag Valley

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Jun 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025

In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
A spectacled bear.

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

James Hall 8 Jun 2023
A resplendent quetzal.

Mountain islands: Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2023

Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Feb 2023
A green lizard.

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

John Cannon 13 Dec 2022
Looking toward the Amazon rainforest from the Andes at sunrise. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amazon cloud forests need protection (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 15 Aug 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

For Mexico’s forgotten cloud forests, sustainability and protection are key

Thelma Gómez Durán 3 Mar 2020

The frog and the university: Meet the niche new species from Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Jul 2019

‘You don’t find orchids; they find you’: Q&A with botanist Edicson Parra

Gianluca Cerullo 6 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Climb confirms that the world’s tallest tropical tree tops 100 meters

John Cannon 7 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Max Radwin 4 Mar 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Industrial fishing in the Galapagos, fracking Colombian cloud forests, whale sharks in Peru

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2018

Researchers are looking into the past to help ensure a future for tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jul 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

Why losing big animals causes big problems in tropical forests

John Cannon 14 Jun 2017

13,000 acres of cloud forest now protected in Colombia

Lillie Howell 16 Mar 2017

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

New orange-black snake discovered in Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016

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