Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight ...

Fears of spreading yellow fever are behind the illegal killing of scores of monkeys in Rio de Janeiro, complicating efforts to fight the virus, authorities say. Just this year, 238 monkeys have been ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - An outbreak of yellow fever has claimed the lives of more than 600 monkeys and dozens of humans in Brazil's Atlantic rainforest region, threatening the survival of rare South ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following a deadly yellow fever outbreak in 2016, brown howler monkeys are slowly making a recovery through targeted vaccination and reintroduction ...

There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started in the 1970s, a new survey reveals. Once on the ...

Something is killing howler monkeys in Nicaragua. And nobody knows what it is. Some conservationists speculate that the primates’ plight might be related to drought, food shortages or other ...

Fears of spreading yellow fever are behind the illegal killing of scores of monkeys in Rio de Janeiro, complicating efforts to fight the virus, authorities say. p pulse Follow Locals, mistakenly ...