One of four surviving Tapir species, Lowland Tapir has been around for longer than many other mammals and our partners are ensuring that they remain in the the Barbacoas for many years to come. Lowland Tapir is a most peculiar animal, alike so many others and yet entirely, spectacularly just like...
Simon Barnes is perplexed by the elusive but over-the-top Crested Argus. There are a lot of pretty funky beasts out there, and mostly we are perfectly able to accept them. After all, life’s like that. Nature will come up with some pretty crazy ideas every so often, and that’s fine. And then another...
Simon Barnes recalls an encounter with a Red-shanked Douc during his visit to Vietnam. Our brains are trained to read faces: so much so that we see meaningful faces in clouds, in cracks on the ceiling and in the folds of the curtain at night. So obviously we are going to read human expressions on...
As Scorched Earth to Forest Haven looks to raise £575,000 to support the replanting of Vietnam’s lost forests, we look at some of the tree species that will be used to regreen this extraordinary landscape. Sitting within the Indo-Burma hotspot, Vietnam is of international conservation importance...
Simon Barnes considers the distinctive traits of the Golden-rumped elephant shrew in his latest post in his blog series, Barnes’s Bestiary. There’s a wild and wacky chunk of forest in Kenya where nature has gone a bit nuts. Instead of being content with the usual run of species that you find all...
A team of entomologists visiting Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA) have found elusive praying mantis species named after dragons and unicorns, which could possibly be new species. There are more than 2,000 species of praying mantis around the world, and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, where...
Ancient forests in the heart of Mexico are being lost to illegal logging and manmade fires, destroying trees that are hundreds of years old and a rich habitat home to Mexican wildlife. We have launched our latest campaign to raise £57,800 and protect 578 acres of these forests in Sierra Gorda...
