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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

Linking environmental and animal movement data sets: how the Movebank Env-DATA System helps to explain snowy owl foraging behavior

Katie Taylor 24 Aug 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

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

Videos reveal rare birds, wild monkeys, and jaguar family in oil-exploited park

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2015

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Recently discovered ‘punkrocker’ frog changes skin texture in minutes

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Apr 2015

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2015

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Apr 2015

‘Lazy’ sea lion sons rely on mothers’ milk while diligent daughters learn to hunt

Nicholas Weiler 3 Apr 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Critically endangered bird gets new addition to its reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Feb 2015

Mining activist released after being charged with terrorism, rebellion in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Scientists rediscover endangered Andean toad in Ecuador

Joanna Parkman 30 Jan 2015

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