BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian prosecutors have started an investigation into a consortium that is building a huge dam in the Amazon, saying there are suspicions the group mishandled a turtle ...

Brazil’s beaches are awash with oil but no one knows quite where it’s coming from. The oil spill is affecting a number of beaches on Brazil’s north-eastern coastline, and is harming turtles and other ...

"Today in the Guapore or Itenez river, we have a binational project for the protection and conservation of species, especially the Amazon River turtle. We work with turtles that are biologically ...

TAPAUA, Brazil — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as ...

(Bloomberg) — More than a month since oil started washing up on some of Brazil’s most touristic beaches, dotting sand with black patches, killing sea turtles and scaring off fishermen, the origin of ...

TAPAUA, Brazil (AP) — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas ...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released on Monday (December 14) a video showing tens of thousands of Giant South American River turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand. WCS Brazil ...

(Gray News) – Conservationists call it a turtle tsunami. The Wildlife Conservation Society released a video this week showing tens of thousands of wiggling giant South American river turtle hatchlings ...

VILA BELÉM, Pará state, Brazil — The fisherman and I sit on the banks of the Tocantins River in Vila Belém, one of more than a hundred fishing villages north of Marabá municipality. All these ...