The director and co-founder of the Global Conservation Institute, spent ten years studying the saki monkey family. This monkeys, like all South American primates, suffer from the effects of region-wide habitat disturbances.
Tag: new species
Global Ideas: Exploring remote corners of the Amazon
Film follows researchers as they aim is to find new species and underline the biological significance of the region.
New dolphin, from Araguaia River, similar to river dolphin from Amazon basin
The animal, fifth species known of freshwater dolphins around the world, could be threatened.
Spectacular new beetle discovered in French Guiana
A new bi-colored beetle was discovered in the lowland rainforest of French Guiana.
Red toad discovered in the upper reaches of the Amazon
The species, which is a master of camouflage, was named Rhinella yunga because the ecoregion called Yungas, in which inhabits.
Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir
The new mammal, hidden from science but known to local indigenous tribes, is actually one of the biggest animals on the continent, although it’s still the smallest living tapir.
Extraordinary Amazon
Number of species discovered by scientists between 2010 and 2013 comprising 258 plants, 84 fishes, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds and a mammal.
Purring monkey and vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species
Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world’s largest tropical rainforest
Relative of the ‘penis snake’ discovered in South America
A new species of caecilian – a worm-like amphibian – has been discovered in the rainforests of French Guiana.