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 ...
Recent research shows that there is considerable overlap in the important corridors for jaguars and key freshwater species, ...
From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That's ...
New study addresses the effects of fires on biodiversity loss in the world’s largest forest during the last two decades. Researchers measured the impacts on the habitats of 14,000 species of plants ...
Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...
Findings add to mounting evidence that recognizing and enforcing Indigenous Peoples’ land rights has widespread benefits – for the climate, nature and, now, health ...
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 ...