Robert Sites, a taxonomist and one of our research partners, has just described a new species of aquatic saucer bug, Maculambrysus gallicei, from a stream at FLP.

A new study by Jéssica Herzog Viana and colleagues has just described a new group of fireflies, the genus Saguassu, including a previously undescribed species from Finca Las Piedras.

A new species of aquatic beetle has been described from Finca Las Piedras! Meet Nanelmis aguaje, a tiny riffle beetle (family Elmidae) that was just described by researchers working at our site in southeastern Peru

Gold is typically viewed as a safe investment by both private investors and central banks, especially in times of crisis, and when the commodity's demand increases, its price increases apace. This is bad news for the Amazon, a major source of the world's gold supply.

The Mascho Piro have mostly shunned contact with outsiders since their ancestors were persecuted by the mercenary army of the Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald at the turn of the twentieth century, but in recent decades contact – and conflict – have been on the rise as loggers, gold miners, and others have steadily encroached on their territory.

A new study has shown that biological field stations provide a wide range of benefits to local biodiversity in the tropics. Among these are reduced hunting and deforestation, two of the most important drivers of biodiversity loss in the world's tropical rainforests. The study also showed that these benefits come at a bargain –  the field stations included in the study acheived these successes with relatively little investment compared to state-managed protected areas, further