Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But ...

A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos ...

One morning in late December, my husband and I found ourselves speeding in a motorboat down the Napo River, a major tributary of the Amazon. We had just left Coca in eastern Ecuador, where an airport ...

Four species of iguanas from the Galápagos Islands have received the highest protection against international commercial ...

A wildlife photographer has beautiful pictures of graceful sword-billed hummingbirds. Andy Rouse captured the birds—famed for ...

Biogeography of Ecuador. Diversity and its causes ; The Andes ; The equator ; Marine currents -- Habitats and bio-regions -- Species accounts -- Amphibians -- Reptiles -- Birds -- Mammals -- ...

Wild animals possess distinct legal rights, including to exist, to develop their innate instincts and to be free from disproportionate cruelty, fear and distress, Ecuador’s top court ruled in a ...

The problem affects all wildlife - both flora and fauna - on the planet, which are protected by strict laws that stipulate that the animals “have rights.” Laws, however, don’t scare off traffickers, ...

Birds in hats fly to a festival, mischievous monkeys enjoy their pilfered prizes and the iconic frog musicians shake their maracas. Adriana Garcia brings these images to life, bringing the vibrant ...

The Galápagos, Charles Darwin once said, are “a little world within itself.” Many of the finches, tortoises and other animals that he saw there in 1835 — and that inspired his ideas on evolution — ...