Gabon is roughly 88% forest. Drive an hour out of Libreville in almost any direction and the road narrows into a green wall, layered canopy stacked on canopy, the kind…
Colombia has roughly 10% of the planet’s species packed into less than 1% of its land. That biodiversity is also exactly what makes the country so easy to wreck. When…
Walk into a temperate forest in April and again in August and you’d swear you visited two different places. The April version is open and bright, the floor carpeted in…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines packs an absurd amount of plant life into 32 islands and cays. You get cloud forest on the flanks of La Soufrière, dry scrub on…
Pygmy marmosets eat tree gum. Not as a snack — as the main event. The world’s smallest monkey spends most of its feeding time gouging holes in bark and lapping…
Let’s settle the headline first: Uruguay is one of the safest countries in South America when it comes to wildlife. No big cats hunting hikers, no swarms of anything famous,…
Spend 24 hours inside the body of a wild Bengal tiger and the first thing that breaks your image of “king of the jungle” is the boredom. A tiger sleeps…
Nigeria packs an absurd range of habitats into one country. Sahel scrub and acacia savanna up north give way to the Jos and Mambilla plateaus, then drop into dense rainforest…
Northern elephant seals eat squid, deep-sea fish, rays, small sharks, and the occasional octopus — and they catch almost all of it in pitch-black water more than half a mile…