Not surprisingly, 25 percent of all medicines come from the plants growing in the rainforest, with an estimated 80 percent of ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s ...

They provide unique habitats for animals because of their mix of old, young and fallen trees, intact soils, and abundant mosses and fungi. The destruction of these forests endangers the animals ...

Letting forest fires to burn allows for natural forest regeneration, providing habitat for species like black-backed woodpeckers and mule deer, which like to forage on new growth following a fire.

The birth of one of Africa’s rarest animals has been caught on CCTV at a UK zoo - in a moment only a few people in the world ...

Shrinking habitat has been shown to concentrate howler monkeys – one of the main South American yellow fever hosts. A study on primate density in Kenya further demonstrated that forest ...

Most people's encounters with lemurs have occurred through their representations in popular children's media, like ...

Mouse lemurs such as critically endangered Microcebus berthae are so small they can fit in the palm of your hand. As people have been turning to forests for food and fuel during the pandemic ...

The Empty Forest: Many large animals are already ecologically extinct in vast areas of neotropical forest where the vegetation still appears intact. BioScience , 42 (6), 412-422. doi: 10.2307/1311860 ...