By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s federal government created a huge conservation area on March 6 to protect a critical biodiversity ...

By Shanna Hanbury More than 50 years ago, the ariel toucan was reintroduced to Tijuca National Park, the world’s largest ...

This article is the second one in a two-part series. Read the first one here. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Philip Jacobson was recently a fellow.

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January, concealed ...

Topics to be discussed include a 24% plunge in the conservation status of these species and the resulting increase in the ...

By Sergio Queiroz SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ...

Stretching from northeastern Brazil, down along the Atlantic coastline, he Atlantic Forest is a vital global biodiversity hot ...

Taking the area from the state of Maranhão in the north right down along the coast to Rio Grande do Sul (3,700 km in a straight line) this covers less than half of the country, but an astonishing 80% ...

SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (WITN) - A wildlife park in Eastern Carolina has been selected to care for an endangered duck species from Brazil. Sylvan Heights Bird Park is one of only two sanctuaries outside ...