High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the ...

Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

The Amazon rainforest is under constant threat from encroachment and segmentation, but animals are finding a lifeline thanks ...

Camera traps reveal that Amazonian animals use a walkway high up in the forest as a secret night-time highway.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As flames burn through Brazil’s rainforest, ...

World Animal Protection recently released a report that shows the abuse Amazon animals undergo for tourist photos Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

FILE - In this Oct.13, 2017, file photo, tourists touch the shell of a large turtle seen during a forest walk in the Amazon rain forest outside of Manaus, Brazil. Many guides are keen on helping ...

A new study examines the migratory movements of jaguars, river dolphins, and other species The Amazon river basin encompasses more than one-third of the South American continent, and the river itself ...

The transformation of the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests into savanna-like environments will change the makeup of both the flora and the fauna of these biomes. A study by Brazilian researchers ...