Discover why monkeys, sloths and opossums are using man-made tree canopy bridges to move around the rainforest.

By Shanna Hanbury Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected ...

The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, ...

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. At least 441 new species of animals and plants have ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak through a flooded forest.

Ángela Maldonado is a Colombian monkey conservationist and founder and director of the Entropika Foundation, an organisation that works to protect rainforest ecosystems in the Amazon. Maldonado’s work ...

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. (Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...