4 essays tagged “ecology”.
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Monteverde's cloud forest hangs in the mist along the Costa Rican Continental Divide. The air is wet. The trees are draped in mosses and bromeliads. The biodiversity, per hectare, is among the highest on earth. The cloud forest is the reason to come.
January 8, 2024
Cairns, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on earth. It is also one of the most visibly distressed marine ecosystems on the planet, with successive bleaching events over the past decade. The visit is worth making, more carefully than the brochures suggest.
September 20, 2023
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Madagascar is the most biologically distinct landmass after Australia — 90% of its plants and animals are endemic — and one of the most logistically demanding countries I have travelled in. The reward, for the patient, is a country unlike anywhere else.
September 26, 2022
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador
The Galápagos Islands are the closest thing left on earth to an undisturbed wildlife laboratory — animals that have no significant fear of humans because, for most of their evolutionary history, they had no humans to fear. The experience is genuinely irreplaceable.
May 15, 2021