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New film documents real-life Avatar story

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016
Aerial photo shows the town of San Pablo de Amalí, the Dulcepamba River, and the Hidrotambo dam facility. Photo by Santiago Pastór

Dam opponents claim criminalization by Ecuadorian government

Martha Pskowski 9 Sep 2016

Scientists have just discovered the first endemic bird species to go extinct on the Galápagos Islands

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2016

Ecological corridor to provide connectivity for endangered, range-restricted Andean species

Anton Sorokin, Emma Steigerwald 13 Jun 2016

Two new rain frogs found in Ecuadorian Andes

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio invests in company, donates shares to Amazon indigenous organization

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

Want to end illegal fishing? Make all ships trackable, say researchers

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

Scientists rush to save an iconic frog from an active volcano in Ecuador

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2016

A new reserve for the world’s smallest deer

Ethan Harfenist 19 Jan 2016

Large-scale copper mine project in Ecuador mired in allegations of abuse

Beth Wald 21 Dec 2015

Ecuador condemned at the new Tribunal for the Rights of Nature in Paris

Karen Hoffmann 10 Dec 2015

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers

Sean Mowbray 5 Nov 2015

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

After crackdown, protesters to march again against Ecuador’s ‘extractivism’

Sandra Cuffe 14 Sep 2015
Male of the recently rediscovered Azuay Stubfoot-Toad (Atelopus bomolochos) foraging on moss.

Good news: Stunning ‘extinct’ toad rises again in Ecuador (photos)

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

Big Oil is the law on Waorani ancestral lands

Veronica Goyzueta 13 Aug 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Scaling bottom-up conservation in Latin America

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

Inside The Toxic Tour: Not for prime-time Ecuador (PHOTOS)

Bill Hinchberger 12 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

Proposed Andean headwater dams an ecological calamity for Amazon Basin

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2015

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 May 2015

China’s investment in Latin America taking toll on the environment, setting the stage for conflict

Shreya Dasgupta 18 May 2015

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