Buy an Acre supporters have this year a chance to help safeguard land in one of the most threatened forest regions in the world, in the process extending a lifeline to the Americas' largest primate. Donations to our flagship programme will support a plan by our partner Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu...
A new Caucasian Leopard has been identified for the first time in camera trap footage from Armenia’s Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR). The latest arrival becomes just the fifth individual leopard to be recorded here since 2013, when our in-country partner, the Foundation for the Preservation of...
Research undertaken in the montane cloud forests of western Ecuador has revealed a previously unknown genus of medium-sized rats known as Pattonimus. Scientists have described two new species, naming one after World Land Trust (WLT) partner Fundación EcoMinga. It’s not every day that a new mammal...
Mindo Glass Frog (Nymphargas balionotus), seen just twice in the wild since it was first described in 1975, has become the highlight of a new scientific paper identifying the Rio Manduriacu Reserve as a key breeding site for the species. Rio Manduriacu Reserve, in the Pacific Western Andes, is...
A Thaos Swallowtail butterfly, also known as the King Swallowtail, photographed at REGUA, Brazil. Image credit: Chris Knowles. “Flowers that fly and all but sing” - Robert Frost, 1923 Butterflies have been used in art for centuries, right back to Egyptian frescoes more than 3,500 years ago, and...
By Lee Dingain – UK representative for REGUA. After nearly 20 years conserving the Atlantic Forest at the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve (REGUA) in south-east Brazil, much of the biodiversity that calls this forest their home is steadily recovering. One of the most charismatic animals benefiting from...
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...
