San Diego Zoo Global scientists are celebrating a major conservation milestone for the organization’s Burrowing Owl Recovery Program. One of two burrowing owls released into their native range have successfully reproduced—and they have produced the program’s first chicks to be...
I have been following the fortunes of the resident, endangered giant otter family for many years and make a point of catching up with them every time I visit Cocha Cashu.
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It is a scorcher in the southwestern Peruvian Amazon. Accompanied by the Giant Otter Conservation Project’s human dimensions team, I climb into a van in Puerto Maldonado, the capital of the Department of Madre de Dios and the main town of the gold mining zone. We take a paved road that...














