The Amazon Rainforest is Burning
Record fires are sweeping through the Amazon rainforest, according to multiple news outlets.
Tag: deforestation
Journey to Belize: Edgar Correa
This post continues the retelling of my 2017 trip to Belize: participating in an archaeology field school and meeting with jaguar experts. The previous entry in this series is located…
Journey to Belize: Melvis
This post continues the retelling of my recent trip to Belize: participating in an archaeology field school and learning about jaguar conservation. The remainder of this series can be found…
Controversy Surrounds Cambodia’s Plan to Reintroduce Tigers
The Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is considered to be functionally extinct in Cambodia. These cats, which are thought to be the population from which all other tiger subspecies originated,…
Journey to Belize: Spider Monkeys, the Internet, and Duendes
This post continues the retelling of my recent trip to Belize: participating in an archaeological field school and learning about jaguar conservation. To read the other entries in this series,…
Palm Oil is Threatening the Elusive Clouded Leopard
Clouded leopards are some of the most elusive and understudied cats on the planet. They comprise two species: the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) and the Indochinese clouded leopard (Neofilis…
Drug Traffickers are Decimating Jaguar Habitat in Central America
I just came across this article from GlobalPost. It claims that drug traffickers are wiping out protected rainforests in Central America. As a result, jaguar are now at risk for…
The Jaguar 