Rainforest Trust has surpassed 70 million acres protected worldwide, an area roughly the size of Nevada, just eight months after reaching the 60 million-acre milestone. The rapid jump represents 10 ...

Few events in the history of the planet are as tragic as the mass destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Since the 1970s, ...

Extreme heat, drought and ozone from fire emissions are devastating the Amazon and other rainforests, new research shows.

Amazonian wildlife including monkeys, capybaras and rare fish is increasingly appearing in Bangkok's exotic pet trade.

A British security assessment warns that ecosystem collapse could turn food and water shortages into global instability.

New World blackbirds such as orioles and grackles seem to have reached South America millions of years before the Panama land ...

A wildlife park is expanding its conservation work with the arrival of new Azara’s agouti.

Odzala-Kokoua in the Republic of the Congo offers encounters with western lowland gorillas, forest elephants, and one of the ...

Every few years, the elders of Muluk, a tiny coastal community in Papua New Guinea, close a stretch of their reef to fishing.