From the Rainforest to the Andes: Meet Over 60 Tarantula Species in Ecuador

Ecuador is located on South America’s west coast, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the equator. Geographically, the country is ...
Fast Company

Ecuador eyes new debt-for-nature swaps involving Amazon and ocean protection

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...
Reuters

Ecuador vows to push Yasuni jungle protection plan

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador vowed on Friday to press ahead with a plan to shield the Yasuni reserve in the Amazon jungle from oil companies after international donors pledged more than $100 million in ...
UNHCR

Ecuador's northern border: Refugee documentation comes to the jungle

PUERTO EL CARMEN, Ecuador, August 17 (UNHCR) - After more than two decades in Ecuador, Nely*, a Colombian woman in her fifties, has finally received her refugee visa. In just one day recently, she got ...
Miami Herald

Rainforest creature with ‘heart-shaped’ tongue found in Ecuador. It’s a new species

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue in a rainforest of Ecuador and discovered a new species. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto As night fell across a rainforest ...