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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

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 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

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

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Amazon tribe attacks oilfield in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2014

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

Initiative to restore 50M acres of degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2014

How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up to big oil – and won

Julian Moll-rocek 5 Dec 2014

Conservationists propose Dracula Reserve in Ecuador

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

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