In Brazil, where cattle ranching is a major industry, jaguars are seen as a threat and are hunted to prevent attacks on ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has created two new nature reserves, as well as seven indigenous territories in the Amazon. The reserves are among a raft of environmental ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The state of Pará has created two new conservation areas along the Amazonian coastline, placing almost all of its mangroves under federal ...

Unallocated public areas account for 28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, and the destruction of these lands keeps rising even as rates plummet across other parts of the rainforest. To tackle ...

Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate ...