Brazilian biologist Mario Moscatelli aims to transform the urban Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro into a bird sanctuary through an innovative project featuring artificial floating islands.

Apartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from ...

Upon arriving in Brazil, I was enraptured by the flora and fauna of the Atlantic Forest. Nova Friburgo, my exchange city, ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is primarily a combination of pigment and structure, not just a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, ...

Parks Department staff in Santa Clara County are on the lookout for a member of a large invasive lizard species that was ...

Humans can do good things as well as bad – and good things are happening in ... are bulky animals, stocky, strong and imposing. The biggest jags of all live in the Pantanal.

Brazil will host the 15th Conference of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (COP15), a ... turtles, birds, among others. According to Amy Fraenkel, the ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, is home to a sizable population of jaguars. Near one tiny outpost, the normally shy animals are ... as well as birds like black-backed water ...

The Pantanal in Brazil is home to some of the biggest jaguars in South America. And I was lucky enough to get up close with them on my visit to this land of majestic animals. Dusk was falling and ...

It is hard to find better words to describe the natural wonder that is the Pantanal in Brazil ... common animals native to the Pantanal — including some of the most beautiful birds in the ...

When I was 10, I came to the Pantanal. My family became ... win-win situation for everybody – the animals, the scientists, our guests. When the Hyacinth Macaw Institute arrived, there were 29 of the ...