Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

Savage river fish viciously attack my bait on mini boat outing.

Mercury contamination comes mainly from illegal gold mining and forest clearing that wash mercury that naturally occurs in ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people across the region.

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a ...

Local Amazon communities protect ecosystems while sustaining fisheries. Support is needed to keep efforts viable. New research highlights “unprecedented” conservation outcomes achieved through ...

PUERTO NARINO – A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins.

Our magnet fishing adventure took a serious turn when an UZI came up from the riverbed. It’s not every day you recover a ...

Colombia Amazon Dolphins Mercury Fishers help scientists and veterinarians to capture pink river dolphins in the Amazon River for health checks in Puerto Narino ...