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Forget budget ranches and basic birding —  now you can spot three-toed sloths, jaguars and coatis from high end boltholes in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador

Rio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's biggest tourist destinations and the city buzzes with life. However, there is plenty more to see when striking out along the country's coastline, discovers Simon Hughes.

Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, a global ecological treasure, face an unprecedented crisis as fires fueled by extreme weather ravage nearly 65% of the region, endangering its rich biodiversity.

The Tepequém frog (Anomaloglossus tepequem) used to be seen in abundance in streams in the Serra do Tepequém, in the state of Roraima. Endemic to Brazil and this specific locality, found only here and nowhere else on the planet, it is believed to have disappeared from the wild. This Amazonian species has never been seen […]

Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this past week in Rio de Janeiro's rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region's most emblematic and endangered species: the golden lion tamarin. The 300 tree seedlings they planted — only inches tall at present — will eventually connect two patches of forest together. It is the latest in a series of incremental forest growth initiatives driven by environmentalists, providing an ever-larger habitat for the monkey. Until recently, the bare and dry land they were replanting belon...