Notebook of a Digital Naturalist

Getting lost in a Venezuelan cloud forest, then descending into the bat-filled ruins of an unfinished dictator's hotel to band three hundred bats in one night.

A harrowing journey through Venezuela's gold rush frontier reveals environmental devastation and human tragedy at Kilometer 88.

A helicopter expedition to the Tepui mesas of Venezuela—the real-life inspiration for Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"—in search of rare pitcher plants and perhaps a dinosaur or two.