These interesting animals are threatened, as are many of the forests in which they live. Brazil's Atlantic coastal rain forests are disappearing due to ever-expanding logging, agriculture ...

By Mongabay.com A wildlife rescue center in Rio de Janeiro is giving animals a second chance after they’ve been torn from the ...

With the recent certification of over 550,000 ha of native forest, Brazil has surpassed Bolivia to have the largest area of FSC-certified Amazon native forests in South America. Brasilia, Brazil - ...

This young, malnourished woolly monkey from Brazil was raised ... European settlers and their animals. Roughly chicken size, the kagu continues to fall prey to non-native pigs, cats, and dogs.

“This measure, although not the end of the use of animals for all types of tests that Brazil embraces, saves an enormous number of lives of all types of animals we know, from dogs ...