Look out Freddo! Aussie scientist discovers new ‘chocolate’ frog after braving disgusting rainforest swamps and hornet nests to catch some Australian scientist Steve Richards helps discover a new breed of chocolate frog He waded through fetid water and knee-high mud to access the tiny creatures Environment is so hostile Richards believes this is why they … Read more
Would you want a rainforest bathroom? New TV show Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms sees DIY SOS builder Mark Millar help families with their home makeovers Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms is a new Channel 5 show hosted by Mark Millar Mark Millar is best known for his role as one of the builders on TV’s DIY … Read more
Tracts of Amazon rainforest stolen from indigenous tribes are up for sale on Facebook Plots as large as 1,000 football pitches have been illegally cleared and burned They were cleared to be used for cattle and listed on Facebook’s Marketplace The protected areas include protected land reserved for indigenous people By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more
Kyle Sandilands buys a stunning rainforest retreat in Port Douglas… months after he moved into a $5,000-per-week Woollahra mansion with girlfriend Tegan Kynaston By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:54 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 4 February 2021 Radio host Kyle Sandilands has added to property portfolio. The KIIS FM … Read more
The Bachelorette’s Ali Oetjen moves out of her parent’s home and into a modern two-bedroom house ‘on rainforest acreage’ By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:13 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 07:13 GMT, 4 February 2021 She moved into her parent’s home at Queensland’s Maleny after splitting with her ex-boyfriend, Taite Radley. And … Read more
Incredible images have captured the indigenous tribes of Brazil who act as guardians of the quickly diminishing Amazon rainforest and fight off outsiders intent on destroying it. One stunning photo showed an 89-year-old tribe chief hunting for fish with a bow and arrow in a shallow bay. Another captured a beautiful indigenous woman swimming underwater … Read more
The Sistine Chapel of the ancients’: Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans is discovered in heart of the Amazon rainforest Eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art in Colombia features animals and humans Discovered in the Amazonian rainforest after it was created up to 12,500 years Found on cliff faces last year in … Read more
The sound of the Musician Wren – a South American bird known for its tuneful whistle – is fading from the Amazon rainforest, a new study says. The species (cyphorhinus arada) is native to the Amazon, which is the world’s largest rainforest at about 2.1 million square miles. But it’s is now ‘seldom seen’ and has … Read more
A pensioner’s car insurance scam backfired, causing a disastrous blaze burning huge swathes of land, when his car exploded in a protected rainforest in Brazil. Heli Barroso Martins, 66, burned down 673 hectares of vegetation in the the Araras Biological Reserve, in Petrópolis in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. The fire, which destroyed the … Read more
The shocking condition of the Amazon has been caught on camera by conservationists as illegal wildfires ravage the rainforest. Images from Greenpeace taken between July 7 and 10 show the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso ablaze despite it being illegal to start fires in the state since July 1st. As of yesterday, the Brazilian authorities extended … Read more