Hotspot Triumphs
What do a manatee and a porcupine have in common? Both mammals, until recently, presented prickly challenges for scientists whose mission to find and track them is a means to help conserve entire ecosystems on which many threatened species depend.

Caught on Film: Carnivores in India
CEPF grant recipient Kashmira Kakati shares a report and photos from her survey of carnivores in some of the last remaining lowland rain forests in northeast India. Her work has yielded the first camera-trap photographs of clouded leopard and other species in Assam.