“Unearthed Mysteries: Newly Discovered Creatures in Honduras’ ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’ Spark Excitement and Speculation”
Conservation InternationalThe RAP team spotted a glass frog during its three-week exploration.
For Larsen, the most notable threat to the area was illegal deforestation. Though the White City has been officially protected since 2015, cattle ranching is still resulting in a high amount of destruction.
“One of the main reasons we found such a high species richness and abundance of threatened and wide-ranging species (e.g., peccaries) is that the forests around the White City remain pristine, unlike much of the region,” said Larsen.
“This makes the area a high conservation priority for maintaining the broader landscape connectivity that is essential for the long-term persistence of biodiversity through Central America.”
Conservation InternationalThe Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) team, overjoyed at their priceless discoveries.
“It’s so exciting to get to visit places where literally there’s so few ways to get there,” Larsen told CNN. “There’s no roads, there’s no logistical infrastructure to access, so you have to helicopter in. And when you do that, you end up visiting places where wildlife tends to be much more abundant.”
“Large groups of monkeys, for example, hang out and try to figure out what you are and what’s going on, there’s an opportunity to see tremendous amounts of wildlife
“There’s big, old-growth trees that you often just don’t see in places that are more impacted by people. So these massive trees that are hundreds or even thousands of years old, that are just overwhelming in size, it’s amazing to see.”
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