Veitch’s Pitcher Plant

Plants > Nepenthaceae & Pitcher Plants

Veitch’s Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes veitchii) is hailed across carnivorous plant botany as one of the most structurally magnificent and adaptable pitcher species in the genus Nepenthes. Endemic strictly to the ancient tropical island of Borneo, this fascinating...

Satyr Tragopan

Birds > Phasianidae & Tragopans

The Satyr Tragopan (Tragopan satyra), also known as the crimson horned pheasant, is widely heralded as one of the most magnificent game birds of the Himalayan mountain system. Inhabiting high-altitude temperate cloud forests from central Nepal through Bhutan and...

Nopili Rock-climbing Goby

Fish > Gobiidae & Gobies

The Nopili Rock-climbing Goby (Sicyopterus stimpsoni), celebrated in traditional Hawaiian culture as ‘O’opu nopili,’ is a remarkable amphidromous goby endemic to the high-gradient volcanic streams of the Hawaiian Islands. Renowned across evolutionary...

Blue Anole

Reptiles > Dactyloidae & Anoles

The Blue Anole (Anolis gorgonae) is universally celebrated among herpetologists as one of the most visually mesmerizing lizards on Earth. Confined exclusively to the remote, isolated volcanic rainforests of Gorgona Island off Colombia’s Pacific shore, this...

Copper Pheasant

Birds > Phasianidae & Pheasants

The Copper Pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii), known across Japan as ‘Yamadori,’ is a majestic, long-tailed gallinaceous bird endemic to the rugged temperate mountain forests of Japan. Celebrated for millennia in classical Japanese waka poetry and...