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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 17 million vertebrate creatures — animals like snakes, small birds and rodents — are estimated to have been killed throughout the wildfires in the Pantanal region of Brazil in 2020, according ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police and environmental protection agency Ibama have repatriated native parrots and monkeys suspected of having been illegally trafficked to ...

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 ...

A Brazilian animal rescue organization has been helping evacuate numerous animals during the devastating floods that swept through the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Footage posted on May 6 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian animal breeders may be over-using antibiotics, a new report by the World Animal Protection charity said on Thursday, citing findings from water tests done in ...