Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Conservationists say there are fewer than 100 Orinoco crocodiles left in the wild. :: Capanaparo, Venezuela They live here, ...

Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with wildlife. River dolphins and endangered Orinoco crocodiles ply its waterways ...

Venezuela's official figure of over 300 billion barrels of proven oil reserves is mostly a statistical reclassification of extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco Belt, driven by high oil prices and ...

April 2 (Reuters) - Russian companies and Venezuela will invest between $60 million and $80 million this year in the Junin 6 block in Venezuela's vast Orinoco heavy crude belt, a senior Russian oil ...

CAPANAPARO, Venezuela — Venezuelan biologist Carlos Alvarado, 34, has one hand on the young crocodile's neck and another on its tail. With the help of some tape and calipers, he is measuring it, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Antonio Machado Allison, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Venezuela’s Orinoco ...

CAPANAPARO, Venezuela (Reuters) -Venezuelan biologist Carlos Alvarado, 34, has one hand on the young crocodile's neck and another on its tail. With the help of some tape and calipers, he is measuring ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Antonio Machado Allison is a professor of Environment and ...