In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures ...

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India’s largest river dolphin survey and the second range-wide estimation under Project Dolphin began two days ago in Bijnor, ...

We canoed the Rio Negro and Solimões to observe wildlife from the water during the day and at night, hiking trails and ...

With Eckerd College’s Global Education program, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil ...

Entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss are the greatest threats to dolphins. River dolphin populations are severely fragmented due to the building of dams. Some subpopulations of dolphins are ...

SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its members are quitting a nearly 20-year-old pact ...

During the dry season, a shallow Amazon lake warmed to about 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius). Within days, over 100 river dolphins died from the heat and washed ashore around Lake Tefe in ...

At COP30, debates over shrinking public funding highlighted why projects such as Mejuruá matter as credible, community-based models for Amazon conservation. Thousands gathered in a sweltering tent ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...