The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

LOS AMIGOS BIOLOGICAL STATION, Peru, Aug 5 (Reuters) - In a camping tent in the Peruvian jungle, four scientists crowded around a tiny patient: An Amazonian rodent that could fit in the palm of a ...

Most land-based mammals in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the savannization of the region. From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

In this inspiring TED Talk, ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals how something as humble as animal waste can restore entire ...

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a holistic perspective, including people, wildlife and the ecosystem.

A Bolivian who claimed to have been missing in the Amazon rainforest alone for a month on Tuesday recounted eating insects and worms, collecting water in his boots and drinking his own urine to stay ...

Efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change are constantly ramping up. Some of these efforts include conservation efforts of existing forests, for example, which can play a crucial role in the ...

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