News
5/30/25 Our first inventory in Brazil
11/15/24 Second prize in XPRIZE Rainforest!
11/5-24/24 Field work in southern Guyana
10/15/24 Our new paper refuting Centinelan extinction
7/30/24 Looking back on XPRIZE Rainforest
11/8/23 Our new map of Amazonian tree diversity and density
10/6/23 Updated Map of Life Regions page launched
10/5/23 Vinicius Peripato’s amazing paper about earthworks in the Amazon
9/18/23 New field work and ex situ plant conservation in coastal Ecuador
7/25/23 Map of Life team qualifies for XPRIZE Rainforest finals
4/15/22 Our paper reporting the rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus
4/1/22 My statement on the recent flooding event at the museum
9/23/21 Lesley’s “slick new mustached gentlefish”
7/30/21 Our article on 20 years of rapid inventories in Amazonian Peru
7/29/21 Our article asking: Where are the field photographs of the American flora?
7/29/21 Our article deciphering patterns of tree distribution in the Ecuadorean Amazon
6/7/21 Our article about a 5,000 year-old forest in the Amazon
5/14/20 Mongabay article highlighting Lesley’s portal paper
10/3/19 Article reporting 64 new records for Peru’s vascular flora collected on rapid inventories
3/5/19 Article reporting that we’ve found 10,071 species of trees in the Amazon so far
2/7/19 Lesley’s monograph describing six new species of bristlenose catfish
8/29/18 Blog post on this site about the role of immigrants in Brazilian science
8/15/18 Blog post on fieldmuseum.org about a Colombian jaguar from 1952