CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

They also support plant and animal life ... remaining in the rainforest. Their reduced numbers are due to poachers and ...

For all that live in the rainforest, some adaptation is required to the conditions. That is all the more true with regards to flora and fauna. With so many different types of plants, animals and ...

Over half of this forest lies in Brazil, which holds about ... Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem around them.

As a child living on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, Patrícia Medici spent her playtime “walking along trails in the forest and watching animals.” Her passion for wildlife blossomed into ...

A carnivorous plant, nepenthes capture and digest small animals for nutrients ... The tree can be found in many parts of Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest, and produces dark purple fruits ...

By Max Bearak and Manuela Andreoni SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The three countries that are home to more than half of the world’s tropical rainforests — Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic ...

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil’s lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ... to protect these animals – currently ...

As dawn sunlight seeped through the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a colorful creature with “toxic skin” climbed down plants using its “large” hands. Stopping on a leaf, it let out a “cricket-like” ...

POCONE, Brazil — Firefighters in Brazil’s Pantanal ... The Pantanal holds thousands of plant and animal species, including 159 mammals, and it abounds with jaguars, according to the World ...

The CAFE-Brazil measurement campaign provided ... half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these ...