Releasing these animals isn’t just good for them, it is also good for the forest. A forest can’t survive without animals to distribute seeds, make fertilizer, and keep the food web in balance.

High up in the mountains of Peru, a “blue-headed” creature settled in for the night. The spiky animal perched on some plants and fell asleep. Unbeknownst to it, this wasn’t going to be a ...

In the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America's past millions of years ago. When we first visited these petrified trees more than 20 years ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” eyes scanned the surroundings — but it wasn’t the only one ...

The animal probably hoped a mate was listening, but that night someone else was listening too. Scientists walking through the forest in Peru found the calling creature — and discovered a new ...

In Peru — one of the world’s top sellers of forest carbon credits, ... “Our grandparents found this area uninhabited, full of fish and forest animals,” said Daniel Cruz Nunta.

Los Amigos lies in the rainforest of southeastern Peru's Madre de Dios region where some 46,000 miners are searching for gold along river banks in the country's epicenter of small-scale mining.

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. ... Passing scientists noticed the striped animal and discovered a new species.

The animal probably hoped a mate was listening, but that night someone else was listening too. Scientists walking through the forest in Peru found the calling creature — and discovered a new ...