In the early spring of 2024, I was presented with the opportunity to visit one of the last places in my country where I had never been, the archipelago of the Canary Islands. Nestled in the middle of the Atlantic next to the African coast, the Canaries are home to a multitude of endemic and unique species of fauna and flora, with unique landscapes very different from both the Iberian peninsula and the neighboring African coasts themselves, both of which I already know well. I was offered to...