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Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021

The only species of bear in South America: the spectacled bear | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 16 Jul 2021

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

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021

Naming of new ant species from Ecuador breaks with binary gender conventions

Jansen Baier 5 Jul 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021

Did you know that spix’s night monkeys only weigh around 1 kg?

Romi Castagnino 19 May 2021
Paula with Floreana racer. Photo credit: Luis Ortiz Catedral

DiCaprio, conservationists launch $43M effort to restore Galápagos Islands

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2021
Road in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2021

Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists

Dimitri Selibas 4 May 2021

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Vincent Ricci 29 Apr 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)

Danilo Borja, Juan Bay, Conny Davidsen 23 Mar 2021

BlackRock must commit to Indigenous rights — not just climate change (commentary)

David Hill 19 Mar 2021

Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon

Antonio José Paz Cardona 9 Mar 2021

Illegal fishing: The great threat to Latin America’s marine sanctuaries

Michelle Carrere 5 Mar 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021
A fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jan 2021
Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) play in the trees, along the Yasuni river. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park

Vincent Ricci 27 Jan 2021

Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021
Deforestation for soy in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jan 2021
Despite the fear instilled by the armed narco-terrorist groups, the Indigenous Siona have organized to monitor their territory and prevent further deforestation. Photo: Mateo Barriga Salazar / Amazon Frontlines

Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade

Ana Cristina Basantes 8 Jan 2021

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020

Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet, groups say

Sol Borja 1 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

Bottlenose dolphins could disappear from Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil

Doménica Montaño 23 Nov 2020
School of hammerhead sharks, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Could China become a partner in Galapagos marine conservation? Yolanda Kakabadse thinks so

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2020

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda

Vincent Ricci 9 Nov 2020

New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders

Mike Gaworecki 28 Oct 2020

Court allows referendum on mining in the Ecuadoran Andes to go forward

Mayuri Castro 27 Oct 2020

Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity

Kimberley Brown 20 Oct 2020

New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Oct 2020

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