Archaeologists have identified hundreds of ancient structures hidden beneath the dense canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó ...

A cloud forest reserve was recently created in the Andes of southern Ecuador to help conserve the range-restricted Endangered Red-faced Parrot by improving its habitat connectivity. Endangered ...

In the mountain forests of Ecuador, a new species is almost entirely invisible among the trees. Conle OV, Valero P, Hennemann FH (2024) ZooKeys Some members of the animal kingdom are masters of ...

Scientists found a “copper”-eyed creature with a “distinctive” throat marking in a mountainous forest and discovered a new species. Google Street View ...

“Trees speak in your leaves, please. And streams tell me your dreams…” Writer Robert Macfarlane was mumbling these lyrics from a random page of his notebook. It was nighttime, and the high forest was ...

For generations, the Pakayaku community in Ecuador’s Amazon has successfully kept unsustainable mining, logging and oil extraction activities out of forests while preserving their cultural traditions ...

According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

Under agreements for sustainable use and protection, Ecuador’s environment ministry has granted concessions for 98,000 hectares (about 242,000 acres) of mangrove forests to artisanal fishers in the ...