Paradise is burning, or at least it will be come September, when more forest is cleared and torched. Biologists are putting it all together. Bolivians have uncovered some of the largest dinosaur tracks in the world. You could bathe in these footprints, but not for long. After surviving 70 million years, the prints are becoming rubble in a busy cement quarry.
Satellite pictures can give biologists a lot of useful information about our planet.
But there's still no substitute for old fashioned exploring. So we're heading there. As Abel Castillo knows all too well, the greatest risk to conservation biologists is often not wild animals, but other people. Picture the humidity of the rainforest high in the mountains, and you have some idea of what to expect in the Andean cloud forest. At last count there were 830 species of birds here in Amboro National Park, one-tenth of all the known birds in the world.