Latin America Stories

Astounding Plants that Look Like Animals

When I was a kid, my mom took our family to see Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, a musical fantasy film that featured a large green animated dragon named Elliott who...

Megan Brief

World Rainforest Day

The Time is Now Established in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership, World Rainforest Day recognizes forests as one of the most powerful and cost-effective climate...

Samantha Miller

From the Galapagos to Greenland: Animals that Live to 100 or More

If you have ever wondered what the secret to longevity is, look no further than species that have inhabited Earth for centuries. Many of them are...

Madison Mitchell

Protecting and Celebrating the Belize Barrier Reef

Belize is fringed by a vibrant expanse of living coral, known as the Mesoamerican Reef System. It’s a Caribbean underwater paradise—a snorkeler’s dream and an...

Michelle Peters

A Walk in Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest

For a relatively small country, Costa Rica packs a punch when it comes to outstanding wildlife and nature opportunities. Anyone with an eye trained on...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Will Machu Picchu Get a New “Old” Name?

A wonder of pre-Columbian architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Peru’s breathtaking Machu Picchu draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year....

Maddi Higgins

5 Strange Species to See in Brazil’s Pantanal

National Geographic called Brazil’s Pantanal “the Wild Wet,” an appropriate name for a vast area of untouched wetlands teeming with wildlife. The region is...

Megan Brief

The Mystery of Charles Darwin’s Missing Manuscripts Has Been Solved!

“Happy Easter” Read the cryptic note left by an anonymous source on March 9, just outside the Cambridge University Librarian’s office, on the fourth floor...

Cathy Brown

Meet the Andean Condor, the King of the Andes

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is not your typical raptor. The Incas thought so much of this massive bird of prey that they believed it brought the sun...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Found: Fishing Jaguars in Brazil’s Phenomenal Pantanal

At more than 81,000 square miles—greater than 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades—the Pantanal, located mostly in Brazil, is the largest tropical...

Cathy Brown

Brazil’s Cerrado Biome and the Story of the Maned Wolf

In between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and the Pantanal lies the Cerrado biome in the highlands of Central Brazil—the largest savanna region in all of South...

WWF

Where in the World You Can See Penguins

They slide on their bellies across the snow, congregate on icebergs and seem to fly through freezing water in search of fish. That’s how most people picture...

Elissa Poma

The Places You’ll Go: El Rosario Monarch Reserve

Where: In the central Mexican highlands state of Michoacán, a steep climb up from the mountain town of Angangueo. What’s there: Mexico’s only public monarch...

WWF

Six Interesting Facts about Patagonia

In the southernmost part of South America, Patagonia occupies 260,000 square miles that span Argentina and Chile. The region is known for dramatic mountain...

Megan Brief

Safeguarding Migration Routes from Ecuador to Costa Rica with the Creation of the Hermandad Marine Reserve

Esperanza: A New Hope With her impressive display of stripes and spots, the young whale shark (Rhincodon typus) glides through the undulating waters, sucks...

WWF

Diving In: A Mexican Whale Shark Excursion

Before dawn Our 4:30am wake-up call is followed by a two-hour journey requiring both a dune buggy and a boat. This sunrise Natural Habitat Adventures'...

Samantha Miller

Why the Monarch Butterfly Migration Is Mexico’s Top Natural Wonder

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies land in Mexico's Central Highlands after a long journey to find respite from the cooling winter temperatures in the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Pablo Escobar’s Hippos: Ecosystem Restorers and Legal Plaintiffs

In the 1980s, Colombian cocaine kingpin and drug trafficker Pablo Escobar purchased four hippopotamuses for his private zoo. After he died in 1993, the...

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