Although injuries to humans are rare, they can cause significant harm, including muscular contractions and temporary paralysis. As the apex predator of the Amazon rainforest, the jaguar is a ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have been blazing for months, and it could take months more still to put them out. Although fires ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected jaguars as endangered in 1972. But in 1980, responding to objections, the Service removed jaguars within the United States from the endangered species list ...

We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...

Fear of the forest, with its snakes and jaguars, and a preference for open ... someone to do “nothing” — to not cut down their rainforest. As the saying goes, “If you want something ...

A British man has reportedly been lynched and burned alive by a mob in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region. He was said to have been killed after a group stormed a police station where he had been ...