High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the region’s wildlife is quietly adapting. Elevated paths meant for tourists and ...

While not as lucrative as illegal mining, wildlife trafficking is still a multimillion-dollar business. Each day, birds, reptiles, amphibians, felines, and primates are snatched from their natural ...

The transformation of the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests into savanna-like environments will change the makeup of both the flora and the fauna of these biomes. A study by Brazilian researchers ...

A new study examines the migratory movements of jaguars, river dolphins, and other species The Amazon river basin encompasses more than one-third of the South American continent, and the river itself ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of land without putting their paws on the ground. The Brazilian Amazon ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

The legal and illegal wildlife trade continues to escalate in tandem with increasing Chinese investment in South America’s Amazon region, mirroring a similar China trafficking trend that devastated ...

STORY: "He's breathing OK." This Amazonian rodent could be yet another victim of mercury contamination. Inside a camping tent in the middle of the Peruvian jungle, scientists are trying to determine ...

South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the ...