The expedition also found a new species of dwarf squirrel and 10 types of butterfly.

Life for women among the Amazon’s illegal gold miners is harsh, violent, and can be deadly.

The president on Sunday signed a declaration making 17 November International Conservation Day.

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest.

Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea.

More than 62,000 sq km of rainforest has burned in Brazil, this year alone.

The current drought is concerning because it comes relatively early in the Amazon's dry season.

Investigation by Global Witness suggests cattle farming is driving illegal deforestation in the savannah featured in BBC's Planet Earth III.