In 2013, it was estimated there were 250 jaguars and 2,500 pumas in the entire Caatinga biome in northeastern Brazil, but the numbers today are likely lower, conservation experts say. A growing threat ...

In Minas Gerais, Brazil, a catingueiro shares his home with the memory of his ancestors and generations of plant varieties.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. While wind turbines and solar panels multiply across the Brazilian dry forests, Tião Alves insists on tin windmills and PET bottle-based heaters.

Brazil has lost 34 million hectares of the 82.6 million hectares of caatinga, warned the president of the national environmental authority Ibama, Rodrigo Agostinho, during a scientific seminar on the ...

The dense, green forests surrounding the General Sampaio mountains in Ceará bring to mind the lush, green landscapes of the Amazon. In the interior of Paraíba, Bahia, and Minas Gerais, there are ...

The dense, green forests surrounding the General Sampaio Mountains in Ceará resemble the lush, green landscapes of the Amazon. In the interior of Paraíba, Bahia, and Minas Gerais, imposing trees, such ...

The Caatinga is a biome, i.e., a large ecological community with unique characteristics that expands over a large area. It is exclusive to Brazil and is characterized by unique fauna and flora adapted ...

Brazil's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has announced the selection of 12 priority projects for establishing federal conservation units in the Caatinga biome. These projects, scheduled for ...

The foreseeable effects of climate change on the Caatinga, the semi-arid shrubland and thorn forest biome in Brazil’s Northeast region, will be catastrophic for most terrestrial mammal species that ...