PERU’S LOST WORLD
“The way we’re exploring this is not much different from how Humboldt or Wallace or Darwin got to these places 200 years ago.” — herpetologist José Padial.
Few humans have ever set foot on the upper reaches of Peru’s Vilcabamba Range, a northeastern spur of the Andes that juts like an archipelago into the sea of Amazon jungle. Jose Padial and his team of herpetologists trekked into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovered animals found nowhere else on Earth. (View original story in bioGraphic Magazine.
