Alameda’s David and Evelyne Lennette are the very devoted stewards of one such cloud forest in Costa Rica that is home to an organization they’re involved with, the Nectandra Institute. The institute ...

Cloud forests like Blanco Pitaya in Puebla support an extraordinary biodiversity, including nearly 10% of the plant species ...

In the cloud forest of Costa Rica, many canopy-dwelling animals do their business in strangler fig trees, perhaps as a way of ...

Hawaii’s Big Island is home to the Kona Cloud Forest, where cool weather, coffee and bamboo are in abundance. After picking up a rental car from Kona International Airport, the drive down Queen ...

Since 2018, El Tambor Project has been using assisted natural regeneration to restore native vegetation in a biodiverse and endemic species-rich cloud forest in the Venezuelan Andes. The project’s ...

An expedition to one of Earth’s most remote corners yielded a remarkable new species, but the discovery comes with an urgent warning Imagine a forest so high, cold and remote that almost no scientist ...

Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from ...

High in Peru’s San Martín cloud forests, a small brown frog with golden eyes has slipped into the scientific record at the very moment its world is shrinking. Oreobates shunkusacha, whose Kichwa name ...

A cloud forest reserve was recently created in the Andes of southern Ecuador to help conserve the range-restricted Endangered Red-faced Parrot by improving its habitat connectivity. Endangered ...