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Andy Isaacson

Andy Isaacson, a New York-based freelance writer and photographer, has lived for a month on world's remotest inhabited island, and a month aboard a Norwegian research vessel drifting in Arctic sea ice. He’s reported stories from all seven continents for The New York Times, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @AndyIsaacson.

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Andy Isaacson's Latest Articles

In Beroboka, a village within the Menabe Antimena Protected Area, children hunt for rhinoceros beetles—a favorite snack.

Farming Insects to Save Lemurs

By Andy Isaacson

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March 19, 2020

A reimagined approach to an age-old practice is helping to fight malnutrition in Madagascar—and may have the added benefit of protecting the island nation's imperiled primates and the forests they call home.

By Foot into Peru’s Lost World

By Andy Isaacson

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June 14, 2016

A team of herpetologists treks into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovers animals found nowhere else on Earth.