Conserving Species by Empowering the Heroes and Sheroes of the Planet
Even Dr. Suess and the Lorax could never have imagined such a place. It is a place the size of California set adrift from the African mainland more than 165 million years ago, a place teaming with bizarre life forms found nowhere else on the planet and quit likely nowhere else in the Universe
The planet is evolving and many species are moving about. Some are changing elevations and some are changing latitudes and some are changing longitudes. Many species are no longer found for obvious reasons and others are gone for no apparent reason.
A tiny hand reached forward so slowly it was almost imperceptible. Almost no light was available high in the canopy of the Indonesian rain forest.
It was 5:30 AM in Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam. It was dark, and a very starry sky stretched out infinitely above us.
We whizzed along at what seemed like warp nine. Three of us and our Indonesian taxi driver, Arvin, were all driving across the middle of Sumatra in a small compact SUV while green images blurred by one after the other.
Beyond the city limits of Panama City lies one of my favorite Latin American zoos – the Summit Nature Park of Panama. I consider this zoo one of my favorites for several important reasons