Golden toads never spent a lot of time in the open, but no one expected them to disappear altogether. These strikingly ...

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 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If it works in your schedule, take a nighttime tour of the cloud forest. A naturalist guide can point out armadillos and tarantulas that come out after dark, and you'll likely ...

Beginning with Quakers arriving in the 1950s, Monteverde has become a distinct community in Central America. In 1972, the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve was established, securing a home for many rare ...

Aqua Expeditions CEO: Safari enthusiasts would love an East Africa cruiseThe small-ship line is marketing cruises on the Aqua Lares as a way to extend a safari trip and see a completely different ...

Lying in a hammock in a Costa Rican cloud forest, I listen to a chorus of exotic birds singing unfamiliar songs. One squawks like a peacock. Another sounds like it’s frantically telling a story. Then ...

Alameda’s status as home to a nonprofit institute devoted to maintaining a Costa Rican cloud forest just may be the Island’s best kept secret. Cloud forests are very moist and unlike their ...

Only our headlamps light up the jungle, which is full of mysterious chirps and other noises coming out of the darkness. Our guide Estuardo Lima directs us to veer into a stream. We squelch along in ...