Southeast Asia: Crossroads of Tropical Life
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s major centers of tropical biodiversity. It is home to the largest island forests…
Author: Rhonda Leisure
Forest Cats of Southeast Asia: Secretive Predators
Forest cats of Southeast Asia are among the most secretive and underrated predators in tropical ecosystems. These animals are rarely…
Palm Oil is Destroying Borneo’s Rainforests
Palm oil is destroying the rainforests of Borneo, one of the most important centers of biodiversity on the planet. On…
Mekong Gibbons: Cries Lost in Silence
The Mekong River basin is home to several species of gibbons — small tree-dwelling primates of the Hylobatidae family, such…
The Mekong: Life Between the Water and the Forest
The Mekong River is more than just a geographical feature. It is the soul of Southeast Asia, a source of…
Amazon at Risk: Ruthless Deforestation for a New Highway
Brazil’s environmental agency has issued a permit to build a broadband highway through the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Trees…
Global Warming and Forests: The Response of the Tropics
Global warming is having an increasingly noticeable impact on tropical forests—unique ecosystems that play a key role in regulating the…
Borneo Island—a True Eden on Earth
It turns out that there are still places that can safely be called paradise on Earth. And that place is…
Orchids of Borneo: Flowers that Almost No One Has Ever Seen
Borneo orchids are among the most amazing, diverse, and at the same time most inaccessible plants on Earth. This island,…
The Congo Forest: the Planet’s Second Lung Apparatus
The tropical rainforests in the Congo River basin are quite extensive and occupy the lowest-lying parts of the Congo Basin…