Explore the Louisiana Wetlands with us on our kayak and motor boat tours. Now the only way to explore this beautiful, ecosystem is by boat or kayak.
Along your trip, you will experience the beauty and learn the reasons why this unique environment is eroding away at one of the fastest rates in the world. Lost Lands is an environmental tour company that takes people into the heart of Louisiana's coastal wetlands. Dense cypress forests and marsh once existed in and around New Orleans, but coastal erosion and subsidence have destroyed much of that
06/11/2026
Global mangrove forests rebound, offering hopeful sign for climate and coastal resilience A new study from Tulane University researchers has found that after decades of loss from deforestation and coastal development, mangroves are expanding in many parts of the world, such as the U.S. Gulf Coast, including Louisiana, as well as China and Australia. They are also thriving in the Ouvéa A...
06/09/2026
They came from the Canary Islands in 1778, sent by the Spanish Crown to populate and defend the Louisiana delta, and they settled into the marshes of St. Bernard Parish as if they had always been there. They were called Isleños — Islanders — and they built a community so insular, so rooted, so deliberately self-contained that their descendants were still speaking an archaic form of eighteenth-century Spanish in St. Bernard Parish well into the twentieth century, five generations after the last ship from the Canaries had arrived.
The Spanish colonial government recruited families from the Canary Islands — particularly from Tenerife, Lanzarote, and Gran Canaria — to settle the strategic lands below New Orleans, where the Mississippi Delta spread into a maze of bayous, marshes, and chenières that most European settlers refused to touch. The Isleños did not refuse. They learned the water. They mastered the pirogue, the cast net, the trotline. They hunted muskrat and trapped alligator and pulled shrimp from the bayous of Terre-aux-Boeufs — Land of the Oxen — with a precision that came from deep generational knowledge of how the marsh worked and what it would give.
What is extraordinary is how long they held. By the early twentieth century, the Isleño community of St. Bernard Parish had weathered Spanish rule, the American takeover, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and repeated hurricanes. Their Spanish dialect — a form of Canarian Spanish laced with French, English, and Native American words — survived in the mouths of elderly community members even into the 1970s and 1980s, when linguists arrived to document what was almost gone. They found a language that had been frozen in time, evolving in isolation for two centuries.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 devastated St. Bernard Parish more completely than almost any other part of the New Orleans metro area. The Isleño community — already small, already aging, already holding on — lost homes, archives, and people. The Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society, established in St. Bernard, had spent decades preserving what could be preserved. After Katrina, the work became more urgent.
If your family carries an Isleño surname — Núñez, Estopinal, Molero, Tureaud, or others from St. Bernard Parish — or if you have relatives who grew up speaking Spanish in the Louisiana delta, your family is part of one of the most remarkable survival stories this state has ever produced. 🌿 ⚜️
06/02/2026
Bob Marshall: If South Louisiana’s climate crisis were a movie “The good, the scared and the dangerous:” That’s what columnist Bob Marshall would title a movie made about how we’re facing up to our area’s climate crisis threat.
05/16/2026
https://www.fox8live.com/2026/05/13/efforts-are-underway-save-louisianas-remaining-cypress-forests/
The largest tree east of California's Sierra Nevada mountains is in Louisiana -- in the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Efforts are underway to save Louisiana’s remaining cypress forests Conservation groups work to replant thousands of trees as scientists study salinity levels
05/14/2026
Bob Marshall: Symptoms of government’s denial of climate change reality are everywhere Why won’t our government address the environmental fallout from climate change? Columnist Bob Marshall chalks it up to a new disease: Climate change derangement syndrome.
05/11/2026
Produced in 2007 this is still an excellent explanation of what is happening in coastal Louisiana.
The Rise And Disappearance Of Southeast Louisiana How the Mississippi River's dynamic land-building sediment created Southeast Louisiana over the course of 7,000 years, and how much has disappeared in the pa...
05/05/2026
Report: Louisiana more vulnerable to climate hazards than average across the South • Louisiana Illuminator The vast majority of Louisiana ZIP codes are having a harder time adjusting to the rising costs and hazards brought by climate change compared to communities across the South, according to a new study.
05/04/2026
05/04/2026
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say
04/25/2026
CRCL Names Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree - Biz New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (press release) - Longtime journalist Mark Schleifstein, who retired last year from The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate | NOLA.com,