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.

So in 1861, the last Brazilian Emperor, Pedro the Second, ordered one of the world's first reforestation programs. A hundred years later, in 1961, Tijuca was named a national park.

Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca National Park, a sprawling 3,953-hectare expanse of restored Atlantic Forest recognized as one of the ...

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 ...

Brown howler monkeys are endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil and Argentina and became one of the 25 most threatened primate species following a yellow fever outbreak in late 2016.

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 ...