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Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns

Maxwell Radwin 14 Mar 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022
Waorani women

Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

President Guillermo Lasso 13 Jan 2022

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Ana Cristina Basantes 5 Jan 2022

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 5 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 14 Dec 2021

Criminal indictment obscures the reality of extractives contamination (commentary)

Suzana Sawyer and Lindsay Ofrias 6 Dec 2021

Galápagos census looks at impacts on turtles during and after COVID lockdown

Michelle Carrere 29 Nov 2021

Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue

Kimberley Brown 17 Nov 2021

Sinking hope of justice as exporter of 26-ton shark fin cargo gets token fine

Michelle Carrere 4 Nov 2021

Ecuador’s consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope

Kimberley Brown 4 Nov 2021

New protections announced for Galápagos Islands and beyond at COP26

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Nov 2021

Oil executives deny misinformation on climate change, despite evidence

Shanna Hanbury 2 Nov 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021

A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 20 Aug 2021

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Aug 2021

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

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