Fewer This Year

A White Plymouth Rock rooster with clean white plumage and a bright red comb in a khaki cotton bush shirt, standing on the great buttress root of a giant rainforest tree in the Amazon, ferns, broad leaves and hanging lianas around him, mist and soft green light falling through the canopy

Under the Kapok

Fewer of them came down this year than in any year since the counting began. He has come to stand among the ones still here, in the green dark under the canopy, where the rain reaches the leaves a long while before it reaches him.

7 August 2026