“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the ...

Not all animals can escape when fire comes burning through the forest. In Bolivia, millions of animals are likely dead as a result of the raging forest fires that continue to burn across the region, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: In San Buenaventura, the Inti Wara Yassi animal shelter has been working next to firefighters and volunteers to help ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amongst the patients here is a small armadillo who was left nearly blinded by the wildfires. Bolivia is one of the poorest nations ...

More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said ...

Poaching and wildfires have driven the country’s jaguar population to a critical level, and until now even rescued animals faced life in captivity ...

Scientists on an expedition through Madidi National Park—the world's most biologically diverse protected area— have now discovered seven animal species new to science, finds that were made in 2015 and ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world’s first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have banned the use of ...

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — She could have lived till 40 in the wild, where the average life span of a lion is double that in captivity. But Maiza is frail and nearly blind after 18 years in the circus, ...

More than 120 major fires have been detected in Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest and dry forests of Chiquitano since March, according to the nonprofit Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). One of ...