Archive for 2015

TAPIRS

STUDYING and conserving the largest land animal in South America—one that, oddly, many people have never even heard of—has been Patrícia Med...

LUKE Dollar was tracking a collared lemur, when he was surprised to come across the shredded remains of the radio collar strewn in with the ...

FORMULATING a conservation strategy for what is possibly the most elusive large mammal on the planet is unquestionably a challenge: how do y...

WITH no formal education in primatology or any other animal science, Belgium-born Claudine André is an unexpected candidate to achieve land...

GREG Rasmussen hates the name many people have given his favorite animals. “They are not simply ‘wild’ dogs; they are not feral domesticated...

Costa Rica suffered severe deforestation and a rapid decline in the populations of many animal species in the 1900s. The disappearance of th...

Costa Rica has almost 200 parks and reserves that, combined, protect every environmental habitat. The first-time visitor faces a daunting ar...