Carried out by the São Francisco and Parnaíba Valley Development Company, the plan aims to restore and maintain fish populations in the São Francisco basin during the closed season.
Two studies by scientists from Brazilian research centers have found for the first time the bacterium Leptospira sp. in dolphins and sea lions off the coast of the country. Leptospirosis has killed over 2,800 people in Brazil in the last ten years.
The Troglobius brasiliensis is a critically endangered bug with six legs and no eyes. Harmless to humans, the little critter can only be found in a cave in Medicilândia, in the northern state of Pará, and still lacks a popular name.
“We bring technology to cattle breeding and restore strategies historically used by the [locals],” said Diego Viana, veterinarian and program coordinator at the Homem Pantaneiro Institute. The world’s largest freshwater wetland, he added, “has had ranching for over 250 years, and the jaguars have always been there.”
The partnership with Chico Mendes Institute should promote sightings and monitoring, and help animals that have been stranded, injured, or killed as bycatch or due to oil spills.
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