WWF-Paraguay urges a focus on actions necessary to face the fundamental threats affecting the Pilcomayo River basin and the whole country: habitat destruction, deforestation, destruction of wetlands ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Oh, the glories of Rio that await spectators and athletes at the 2016 Olympics: those beaches, that music, the dramatic mountains. And then there are a few thousand ...

Intrepid as Crocodile Dundee, Brazilian biologist Ricardo Freitas catches a caiman in the dark of night with a snare pole, then hoists it into his small wooden boat. Unfazed by the reptile’s sharp ...

- Swallowed trash and condoms - Freitas estimates the region is home to around 5,000 broad-snouted caimans (Caiman latirostris). The largest grow to more than three meters long. One major threat to ...