Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with ...

A destroyed car, after clashes allegedly involving the ELN in January in Venezuela's town of Barrancas del Orinoco A move by the ELN to expand its control along the banks of the Orinoco River in ...

CAPANAPARO, Venezuela (Reuters) -Venezuelan biologist Carlos Alvarado, 34, has one hand on the young crocodile's neck and another on its tail. With the help of some tape and calipers, he is measuring ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Just in time for Mother's Day, Zoo Miami is ecstatic to welcome its newest residents. Eggs from an endangered Venezuelan Orinoco River crocodile began hatching. Zoo officials said ...

Using a rapid DNA testing toolkit developed by FIU researchers, Colombian officials stopped an illegal shipment of 2,200 Matamata turtles and returned them to the Orinoco river basin. Matamata turtles ...

An estimated 700 Indigenous Warao people from Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta now live in the Amazon Delta city of Belém in Brazil, having fled there from the economic crisis in their home country. In Belém ...

Pushing through the steaming jungle, a Venezuelan army major named Franz Antonio Rísquez Iribarren scrambled to the top of a high cliff in the Parima Mountains and proudly planted his flag at the ...