So for the months when non-fishing guests are here, Salles will lay on naturalists. This is a place where there are around 16,000 types of trees and 1,500 species of birds.

Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing.

The world's mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China. Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Jacuzzi-level temperatures of the Amazon River have killed more than 100 pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in Brazil over the past week after more than 120 carcasses ...

Locals call it: cuicu. Plated with armor, this pre-historic catfish is not to be played with. Up river, boat builders are busy constructing a new fishing vessel. It will take 15 months to complete.

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon river basin. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022; 289 (1976) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0726 ...