The rainforest has many layers There are thousands of tree species in the Amazon rainforest, many of which grow to between 80 and 100 feet tall, developing huge networks of branches that make up the ...

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world, is home to a remarkable range of unique and colorful wildlife, including extraordinary amphibians like the vibrant red-eyed tree ...

Brazilian biologist Fernanda Abra was recognized by the Whitley Fund for Nature for her pioneering work to build and monitor low-cost canopy bridges over Highway BR-174 in the Amazon rainforest ...

The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in sustaining life on the planet. Yet, this vast, tropical wilderness and its inhabitants are losing the fight.

At least 441 new species of animals and plants have been discovered over the past four years in the vast, underexplored rainforest of the Amazon. The discoveries from 2010 to 2013, include a ...

Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to protect endangered primates.

When their vocal calls get drowned out by traffic and other human noises, monkeys living in the Amazon Rainforest resort to sending smell-based messages nearly twice as often as usual. “Right in ...

In Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation.

Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy bridges have reconnected rainforest fragments that were separated by urban ...

The encounter inspired Schlindwein to launch a reforestation drive to open a corridor for the monkeys to swing tree-by-tree back into the rainforest. "This little creature is endangered.

The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a study released Monday. The U.S. nonprofit ...