Not all forests are created equal. The massive green swaths of Peru’s Andean and Amazonian forests host a more diverse array of life than previously thought — much of which has been hidden beyond the ...

Carbon map for the region of Pasco, Peru. From Asner et al (2014). Peru’s landmass has just been mapped like never before, revealing important insights about the country’s forests that could help it ...

In 1988, when British environmentalist Norman Myers first described the concept of a “biodiversity hotspot” – an area with at least 0.5 percent or 1,500 endemic plants that has lost 70 percent of its ...

Map: This map shows where the new species of brush tailed rodent was discovered in Peru's Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve. It also shows where scientists have located each of the five other ...