Juliana Machado Ferreira moves quickly through the chaotic expanse of tables and stalls in Vila Mara, one of the busiest street markets in São Paulo. … Read More »Trafficking in São Paulo: Smuggling Wildlife from Brazil
Three couples of Alagoas curassows (Pauxi mitu) were reintroduced in September in an area of 980 hectares of Atlantic Forest in Alagoas. After three decades extinct… Read More »Alagoas curassow: almost extinct bird returns to nature and tests survival capacity
March 3rd was a historic date for the small town of Curaçá, in the Bahian Caatinga. A great celebration marked the arrival, after two decades, of… Read More »Spix’s Macaw returns to Brazil, but surrounded by controversy
In April 2018, employees of Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, an NGO dedicated to protecting the species, found one of these endangered primates apparently sick and unable to climb… Read More »The Next Big Threat to the Golden Lion Tamarin: Yellow Fever
In 2017, with increasing reports of illegal wildlife trade leaving the Amazon, I decided to fly accompanied by a photographer and filmmaker to Iquitos, Peru,… Read More »China-Amazon Connection: Wildlife Trafficking to Asia is Growing