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New frog in Peru’s cloud forest is already on the edge of extinction

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 ...
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Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns

By Liz Kimbrough Up in the misty mountains, teems a kaleidoscope of life: trees drip with epiphytes, hummingbirds sip from ...
EcoPortal.net

Biologists ventured deep into a forest in Peru and found an ‘island in the sky’ where a strange kangaroo frog lives among the clouds

Researchers have discovered a new marsupial frog species living in an 'island in the sky' high above the forests of Peru in a ...
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Biologists climbed into a mist-covered forest in Peru at 1,000 ft expecting silence until something long thought extinct began moving through the fog

Scientists headed into the mist-covered forests in Peru expecting silence. Instead they found a creature thought to have gone ...
Condé Nast Traveler

Learning Peru's Hidden History, From the Cloud Forests of Amazonas to the Volcanic City of Arequipa

For Conde Nast Traveler's Iconic Itineraries, we partner with our travel specialists to create classic trips through our favorite destinations that showcase the difference it makes to travel with the ...
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Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

Payments for the provision of water by cloud forests for hydropower could produce income for countries and bolster the case for the forests’ protection, a new report reveals. These fog-laden forests ...