Brazilians Get Juicy Tax Breaks When They Adopt Animals, Plant Trees, or Hail Historic Roots
Brazilian cities like Belo Horizonte are offering tax breaks for citizens who adopt stray dogs, plant jabuticaba trees, or decorate their storefronts.
Brazilian cities like Belo Horizonte are offering tax breaks for citizens who adopt stray dogs, plant jabuticaba trees, or decorate their storefronts.
Peruvian President Martin Viscarrato is readying to plant 1 million trees around Machu Picchu in order to protect the site from natural disaster.
Fishermen in Peru have turned around a decimated sea lion and seal population in Peru, after seeing the creatures in a new way.
An anonymous do-gooder dressed as batman (but with a face mask) delivers food to the homeless people on streets in Santiago Chile.
Their first billboard provided drinking water to a parched and arid region of Peru. Now, The University of Engineering and Technology is cleaning pollution out of the air generated around a construction site.
A touching video from Brazil shows a woman serenading a cow in a barn, but then the bovine joins her, for a heart-warming duet.
Atelopus mindoensis, the mindo harlequin toad unseen since the 1980s has been rediscovered in ecudaor, suggesting they may have overcome a chytrid epidemic.
This Fair Trade jewelry from South America is made from fruit and berries, and offers beauty and bounty to both the maker and wearer.
To inspire others with disabilities and give wheelchairs to the poor, Zach Anner's friends hiked up a Nicaraguan volcano carrying Zach on their backs..
Emerson Mariano, a Hyundai branch manager in Brazil, rescued a street dog named Tucson Prime. Now he's a 'salesman' with his own Instagram.
Indigenous Amazon leader Nemonte Nenquimo won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her organizing work to save Ecuador's rainforests.
Cecilia the ape is the first of her kind to be granted rights based on her sentience, resulting in her transfer from a miserable zoo to a sanctuary.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio announced a $43 million contribution toward efforts to restore and rewild the Galápagos Islands.
Witness these sea lion pups suddenly surround scuba divers and do a water ballet around them to engage in play.
Lima, the driest megacity which relies on and glaciers for water, looks to erect fog catching towers and nets to prevent climate change.
After a cycling accident left Jon Ayers a quadriplegic, his love of wildcats drove him to donate his business expertise and $20 million to Panthera.
Just 30 miles from the capital of La Paz, 20 new species were discovered by scientists from Conservation International above the Zongo Valley.
Ecuador announced at COP 26 an expansion of the marine protections around the Galápagos Islands by 23,000 sq-miles—nearly 15 million acres.
Bovaer was approved as a feed additive for dairy and beef cows, as well as sheep, to reduce methane gases in Brazil and Chile.
The Bolivian government recently created the largest protected wetland in the world - an area bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined, more than 17 million acres (6.9m hectares). The Llanos De Moxos wetland is prized for its rich natural diversity, as the home to 131 species of mammals, 568 types of birds, and 625 fish species. Several species - including the giant otter and the Bolivian river dolphin - have been identified as vulnerable, endangered or at critical risk of extinction.
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