Minutes before beginning that jungle trek with Gushiken, she’s on a Facetime call to Florida with an Okinawa veteran, Neal McCallum, a Marine who came ashore on the island on April 1 ...

With about 80% of its terrain rugged and mountainous ... often hailed as the "Amazon of the East." As Okinawa Prefecture's second-largest island, it stands apart for its raw, unspoiled wilderness ...

The woodpecker — a brown bird with red-tipped feathers — is found in only one place on Earth: a small area of old-growth forest on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Most of the birds’ remaining habitat ...