The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it. But Prof ...

At the same time, the Amazon River plunged to record lows for the second consecutive year, forcing governments to declare states of emergency and distribute food and water to affected communities. A ...

Visitors can get up close with tropical birds including the green-winged macaws and scarlet ibis, and meet Parker the jaguar.

“When the river starts to flood ... city of Manaus with a biologist friend. “The Amazon is a magnet,” he says. Passionate about the forest, he sought out any opportunity to work in the ...

When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on Copacabana Beach. I would bet that Belém, a city in the northwest of the ...

River pirates and guerrilla rebels. Jaguars in the rain forest, piranha in the water and ... a Brazilian island in the Amazon that juts out into the Atlantic. They followed the coast, timing ...

In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and ...

The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it.