Scientists named Leopardus tilcayo, a tiny Yungas tiger cat, the first new living cat species in more than a century. It is not a house cat.

The tiny Leopardus tilcayo weighs just 1.4 kilograms and split from related tiger cats about 1.4 million years ago; ...

A newly identified wild cat species, the Tilcayo, has been discovered in Bolivia's cloud forests, marking the first formal ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A brand new species of snake has been discovered lurking in cloud ...

In a March study reported on by El País, researchers found that hundreds of Mesoamerican plant species have been climbing mountains for decades. Rising global temperatures are the culprit. Using ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Payments for the provision of water by cloud forests for hydropower could produce income for countries and bolster the case for the forests’ ...

Monteverde remains one of Costa Rica’s wettest places, receiving more than 2,500 millimeters (98 inches) of rain a year. Yet scientists are finding signs of drought in the plants that help give the ...

For those who have a hard time saying goodbye to the vibrant flowers of summer, a fall visit to San Francisco Botanical Garden's (SFBG) Mesoamerican Cloud Forest is a chance to discover the vivid ...

Biologist Ruben Dario Palacio is helping to study and preserve the cloud forests which are key to the water supply of his hometown of Cali, Colombia. Six of the seven rivers that run through Cali ...