Brazil’s government has resumed the activities of the concession program to privatize its national parks. The initiative is aimed at developing regions that possess enormous tourist potential, but are ...

The Brazilian government has designated 952,000 hectares of remote public land in the Amazon as two new protected areas. The two parks are located in the municipality of Maués, in the western part of ...

Last month Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed three new protected areas in the Amazon basin, placing 1.84 million hectares (4.55 million acres) of rainforest off-limits for ...

Swimming in a fervedouro feels a bit like floating in a pool of champagne, as water from a subterranean river gurgles up from a rupture in the earth, pushing up a froth of fine pink sand. Although its ...