“In this really industrial city life, with no wilderness, I was always around these exotic animals, like parrots,” he recalled. Many protected areas around the world are simply too small to meet the needs of species living there. To protect creatures crucial to food webs, you need safe pathways between patches of habitat. You also need to think about climate change and provide animals with routes to migrate to the habitat they will need. La Amistad lies in the Talamanca Mountains, a vast wilderness area and United Nations World Heritage Site on the border with Panama.

Source: Daily Sun March 08, 2026 11:18 UTC