brazil

Western lowland gorilla "Imbi" with her two offspring.

Lush 1300m2 (13400ft²) chimpanzee exhibit at Belo horizonte zoo. The zoo houses 2 chimpanzees nowadays (the picture is from 2018. The exhibit has changed nothing since then, but at this time there were three individuals)

One of the two individuals of chimpanzees that the zoo houses. This is the female, 'Dorotéia'; she lives with her stepfather, 'Serafim'.

Capuchin monkey looking down in his large aviary exhibit. The zoo houses a considerably big number of these animals, but only two individuals are for display

Caiman floating in his new exhibit. This species has good reproductive results at the zoo

A good article from Mongabay on the steep challenges of conserving the turquoise fronted amazon parrot from poaching for the illegal pet trade in Brazil. For Brazil’s most trafficked parrot, the poaching is relentless Sadly this species often ends up in Brazilian zoos in large numbers, either...