Baby Cabybaras (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) along Rio Tambopata

Picture: Travelers palm (Ravenala madagascariensis)

Picture: Great Barrier Reef

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could lose 95 percent of its living coral by 2050 should ocean temperatures increase by the 1.5 degrees Celsius projected by climate scientists. The startling and controversial prediction, made last year in a report commissioned by the World Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Queensland government, is just one of the dire scenarios forecast for reefs in the near future. The degradation and possible disappearance of these ecosystems would have profound socioeconomic ramifications as well as ecological impacts says Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, head of the University of Queensland's Centre for Marine Studies.

Black grasshopper with indigo blue eyes and yellow polkadots

Black grasshopper with indigo blue eyes and yellow polkadots, in Peru

Forest along bank of Tambopata river

Forest along bank of Tambopata river

Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly feeding on dung

Clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly feeding on dung

Pictures of Rodents in Peru

The Capybara, the world's largest rodent. On the Tambopata river in Peru.

More rodent pictures from Peru