Red macaws are among some of the more sought after species in Brazil's illegal wildlife trade A spate of recent operations targeting wildlife trafficking rings in Brazil have highlighted the extent to ...

Whenever Wagner Fischer drives, he notices the roadkill. As a graduate student in the 1990s, Fischer, now a biologist with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, traveled through Brazil’s ...

SAO PAULO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The Brazilian animal feed industry will produce slightly less than expected in 2025 after a case of bird flu in the country affected chicken exports and curtailed demand ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species. The scientists at Brazil’s Embrapa agriculture research agency said ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Golden conure (Guaruba guarouba), a species threatened by trafficking. Image courtesy of RENCTAS. In the tropical forest surrounding Alter do ...

Poconã, Brazil — The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires reduce vast ...

New technology can tell if an animal sold in the legal wildlife trade was bred in captivity or captured illegally from the wild. Through analysis of stable isotopes in claw and fur samples, police in ...

BRASILIA, May 2 (Reuters) - Poaching and trafficking in wild animals such as monkeys and parrots is reaching critical proportions in Brazil, home of more animal species than any other country, a ...

BRAZIL (WNCT) — More than 2,000 wildfires have ravaged Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this month, taking an incalculable toll on wildlife, as dramatically illustrated by video from ...

The destruction of the world's largest tropical wetland may endanger biodiversity and cut off vital resources for wildlife and people. A jaguar mother and her cub sit under charred vegetation of ...