Ilha da Queimada Grande, known as Snake Island, hosts a unique evolutionary marvel. This isolated Brazilian island is home to ...

By Karla Mendes A traditional food source for Amazonian communities, freshwater turtles have been included in Brazil’s list of fauna threatened with extinction for the first time. The cágado-iaçá, or ...

This article is the second one in a two-part series. Read the first one here. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Philip Jacobson was recently a fellow.

Government agencies in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state launched public procurements for more than 200 metric tons of meat from endangered angelshark species between 2015 and 2025, a Mongabay ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, including a fast-moving gossamer worm, a creepy fish, and other organisms ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that three Brazilian butterflies will be listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s listing follows a 2021 lawsuit by ...

Xokleng Indigenous activist Carl Gakran is helping lead the fight to save the critically endangered Brazilian pine tree – Copyright Petter BERNTSEN Dancing around a ...

An endangered Lear’s macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos ...

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, began to be reintroduced into a thousand-hectare forest ...