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

How Black people saved Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca forest 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 ...

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 ...

Free Tours de Aventura co-founder Anna Atz Asen hikes through Tijuca Forest in Rio de Janeiro. (Dina Mishev/For The Washington Post) ...

Today, Tijuca is the largest urban forest in the world, attracting around 2 million visitors annually. But amid the seemingly unspoiled natural setting in the middle of one of Brazil's major urban ...

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.

Following a deadly yellow fever outbreak in 2016, brown howler monkeys are slowly making a recovery through targeted vaccination and reintroduction efforts in one of the world’s largest urban ...

A tourist feeds a coati with a banana in the rainforest in Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2014. The Tijuca forest park is a mountainous rainforest in the city of Rio ...

The latter, despite being terribly steep, can be so busy it feels like a mule train. Elsewhere in Tijuca, though, it feels like a national park. Tijuca Forest is secondary Atlantic Rain Forest.

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 ...