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Into Colombia’s Sierra Nevada

A birders' paradise with a violent past. A motmot in Colombia's Sierra Nevada. Photo by: Miguel Hernandez . The highest coastal mountain on the planet rises 18,942 feet (5,775-meters) above…

The ultimate bike trip: the Amazon rainforest

An interview with Doug Gunzelmann. Like all commercial roads through rainforests, the 5,300 kilometer long Rodovia Transamazonica (in English, the Trans-Amazonia), brought two things: people and environmental destruction. Opening once-remote…

Borneo photos

Pictures of the Borneo rainforest Pictures of the Borneo rainforest Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com March 28, 2006 Mongabay.com, a leading rainforest information web site, has launched a new section featuring…