Advertising: Cloud Forest Cats, Bats, Rats and more. Panama, July 2027
I had such a great visit to the Tamandua Cloud Forest Lodge in Panama in June that I will be returning next year with legendary field biologist, photographer and all round good guy
Costa Rica, April 2026
Inspired by comments from Jon on a recent podcast about encouraging new members to the community who ideally write trip reports, I have written up this report of an independent tri
Three days in Panama, 2026: Clouded Oncilla and more!
I spent three nights in Panama this month on my way back to New York from Brazil. A free stopover on COPA airlines was the perfect opportunity for me to see a friend in Panama City
Mammal Conservation Internship
Hello mammalwatchers! My name is Jonatan and I’m an MSc student in Biology (Mammal Ecology & Conservation) at Wageningen University & Research from the Netherlands. I
Close Encounters of the Nocturnal Kind: mammal watching with thermals
As mammal researchers we are focused on those species that live high in the canopy and only appear after dark. To observe them we have embraced the use of multi-spectrum thermal/IR
Costa Rica
Visiting Costa Rica has been high on my wish list since early childhood. After being diagnosed with cancer mid last year I decided it was time to make the long thought about trip a
Trip Report – Costa Rica, April, 2025
Hi all, here’s the long awaited (I’m sure) Costa Rica trip report of my second visit to the country with Vino de Backer last year. 13 days, 86 mammal species (59 bats, 27 o
Guatemala, 2026
Led by José Gabriel Martinez-Fonseca, Luis Trujilo Sosa and Luis Enriquez Gutiérrez Lopéz With Emma Busk, Jon Hall, Charles Hood, Mike Richardson, Venkat Sankar, Jon Swenson and
Panama, March 2025
This is a report from a trip I took last March with my Dad, where we spent a little over a week visiting a few locations in Panama. We were primarily focused on diving during our t
México: Michoacán, Chiapas, and Quintana Roo Trip.
Hello everyone, this is my first trip report so it might be quite long lol, but it was a cool trip so i think its worth the read. You can see some more pictures of this and other a