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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...