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How’d you like to find this in your house? Posted by Rachel on Jun 3, 2009
This week, a family found this in their house in a rural part of Goiás state: The five meter-long, 75 kilo snake was captured by firemen and was brought to a wildlife treatment center. It will soon be released back into the wild. According to the authorities, there have been an increase in calls to…
Off the Beaten Path: Part IV Posted by Rachel on Feb 10, 2009
Most certainly off the beaten path, the Parque Nacional das Emas is tricky to get to, since it’s nearly 500 kilometers from Goiânia, the capital of Goiás, and almost 400 kilometers from Campo Grande, the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul. Ema National Park encompasses 1,300 square kilometers on a plateau with little forest cover…