In the heart of the Marvellous City, the Tijuca Forest sprawls over 32 km² of lush nature, making it the largest urban forest ...

It's this combination of inviting beaches, exciting city life, and tufted rainforest that makes Rio de Janeiro (and Brazil) a tourist haven. That, plus how Tijuca National Park interweaves throughout ...

An arial view of the 'Christ the Redeemer' statue on top of Corcovado Mountain, situated in the Tijuca forest, on July 27, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

To support Brazil's population, the majority of which live in close proximity to the ocean, these forests were largely cut down to make room for development -- and Rio's Tijuca forest was no ...

The community outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park has done something no other favela has: built its own biosystem to process waste. How a favela in Rio got its clean water back ...

At 15 square miles, Tijuca National Park is among the smallest of Brazil’s 60-odd national parks. But, being in Rio de Janeiro, any amount of green space in a city this populous is sweet.

Tijuca forest park in Rio 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, January 14, 2014 A tourist feeds a coati with a banana in the rainforest in Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2014.

Now, all howlers slated for translocation must be vaccinated, including those reintroduced later to the 4,000-hectare (10,000-acre) Tijuca National Park, an urban forest at the heart of Rio de ...

The rainforest that once covered around 15% of Brazil has shrunk by more than three-quarters. However, initiatives are multiplying, notably to reforest Rio de Janeiro.

OPINION: Tijuca National Park is the largest urban rainforest in the world and the heart of Rio. Now, the little-known story of how six enslaved Black Brazilians helped save the land from complete ...