Trop Picks: Sarracenia purpurea
Why do we have a hard time getting our heads around the fact that carnivorous plants like Sarracenia purpurea are temperate?
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Trop picks: Phalaenopsis venosa
To take this photograph of a Phalaenopsis venosa in flower in Sulawesi, I had to climb up on the shoulders of a hardy guide. A minute later, as I got back down on to what I thought was solid ground, I fell through a pile of debris on the forest floor into a deep hole. Luckily, I grabbed onto a nearby root, so I was not lost forever, although I did lose my lens cap.
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Sulawesi: Where Continents Collide
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above is a photo of the Scottish Highlands. In fact, it was taken in central Sulawesi.
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Trop Picks: Tulips
The science behind how tulips “remember” winters past.
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Trop Picks: The Sex Life of Bananas
Oh yes, I’m going there, and it’s not what you think.
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An Elephant Named Indira
Before panda diplomacy, there was elephant diplomacy.
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Zootopia
Why are native fauna given the short shrift at institutions supposedly dedicated to conservation and “edutainment”?
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Trop Picks: Orientalist Science
The line between scientific and unscientific thinking is finer than we think.
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The Sacred Grove
Whatever Thoreauvian notions you might harbor about nature in the tropics, the truth is that the impact of human intervention is everywhere, and what you encounter is not quite natural.
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How Do We Save All This?
Isn’t it time we started thinking about pristine ecosystems as providing a service, and if so, shouldn’t the owners of that resource be compensated for the service?