Banner image: A pink river dolphin is found dead in an Amazon river. Image provided by Sea Shepherd Brazil.

This year, the drought in Amazon rivers is already worse than in 2023, when 209 pink and grey river dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé, in Amazonas state, largely due to overheating of the waters.

The Amazon river dolphins — some pink in color — are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America. A slow reproductive cycle makes their populations especially prone ...

Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say. Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large ...

Sea Shepherd is launching a new conservation research campaign in Brazil to protect the dolphins of the Amazon River. The scientific expedition, known as Boto Da Amazônia (Amazon River Dolphin ...

A joint declaration has been signed between nine nations from Asia and South America to save river dolphins ... Recently, more than 150 dolphins died in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the ...