In the 1980’s, Pablo Escobar illegally imported hippopotamuses for his private zoo of exotic animals.

A team of researchers from the National University of San Agustín de Arequipa (UNSA) discovered five new endemic species of plants.

New legislation that is currently being discussed in the chamber of Deputies of Brazil aims to create the national system for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+).

The Venezuelan states of Anzoátegui and Monagas have suffered from continuous oil spills for many years. Now, rivers and pools of oil are contaminating natural ecosystems in these areas.

In a mission to help stimulate economies “ravaged by the pandemic,” governments from Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and Peru have developed projects that are causing harm to indigenous communities and forests.

Environmental groups and private companies call for support of an engineering project on the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway to decrease environmental impact and lower transportation costs.

Despite being the eighth country in the world with the greatest abundance of water, Peru is facing a water scarcity affecting more than seven million Peruvians.

Indigenous people from the southern region of the Colombian Amazon hunt wild game for their communities, as is part of their tradition and ancestry.

Argentina’s loss of aquatic sovereignty has had negative political, economic, and environmental impacts on the country, but could be salvaged with a new building plan.

February 9, 2021, was the 50th anniversary of the “terrifying drought” that impacted the lives of more than 600 families in a small Costa Rican city.