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Photo caption and photo credit Caption (Upper Left): Canis lupus scats laid on the endemic plant Acantholimon libanoticum in Mount Lebanon Photo credit: Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat Caption (Upper Middle): Invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), endangered burbot (Lota lota) and the common roach (Rutilus rutilus) used in the mesocosms for the preservation experiment. Photo credit: Jelger Herder Caption (Upper Right): Chironex fleckeri, one of the most venomous animals on the planet and one of the greatest risks to tourism in tropical regions. Stings result in excruciating pain and potential death. Until recently, labor intensive and costly detection methods have been used. New eDNA methodology has validated success in locating not only medusae, butalso polyp source reefs of cubozoans, allowing for the gap in cubozoan ecology as well as potentially saving lives. Photo credit: Dr. Robert Hartwick Caption (Lower Left): A sampled stream within the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. The photo inset shows one of the species, Helogenes marmoratus, caught during the netting survey. Photo credit: Chiara Benvenuto Caption (Lower Middle): Annamite striped rabbit ‐ A mysterious lagomorph of the Annamite forests Photo credit: Andrew Tilker Caption (Lower Right): Terrestrial leech ‐ A mammal genetic collector in tropical forestsPhoto credit: Andrew Tilker