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Petrel chick in the Galapagos. Photo credit: James Muchmore

How a group in Ecuador protects 10% of the world’s bird species

Rhett A. Butler 11 Dec 2023
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023

Toxic new frog species from Ecuador named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2022
Andean bear captured in a camera trap a the Qeros-Wachiperi Conservation Concession, part of study to determine the bear’s habitat preferences. The bears altitudinal range goes from 200 to 4000 meters above sea level. Photo: Conservación Amazónica ACCA.

How bears “make” a forest (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 30 Sep 2022
A common squirrel monkey in Colombian Amazon.

Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web

Gianluca Cerullo 20 May 2022
A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021

Study finds abandoned pasture is ‘a huge resource that is not being harnessed’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Apr 2015

Scientists rediscover endangered Andean toad in Ecuador

Joanna Parkman 30 Jan 2015

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2014

Key highland habitat for rare condor protected in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2014

Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests, home to thousands of species found nowhere else

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Featured video: ‘this is day one for the olinguito’

Jeremy Hance 4 Sep 2013

Meet the BABY olinguito

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2013

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2013

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