Xavier Castro is a writer who works at the Galapagos Conservancy, where he dedicates himself to educating the public about ...

QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador has released 201 tortoises on Santa Fe Island in the Galapagos archipelago, where a similar subspecies went extinct more than 150 years ago. Santa Fe is the former home to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael ...

A large fleet of some 260 Chinese fishing vessels has been spotted in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, the country’s navy officials said last week. The Ecuadorian ...

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they disappeared more than a century ago, the environment ministry said Friday.

A crime sweep carried out by the Ecuadorean military in a coastal town is the latest sign of the military assuming duties more typically handled by the police. In a security crackdown dubbed ...

Reporting from Quito, Ecuador — Ecuador’s defense minister on Monday defended his country’s decision to allow U.S. anti-drug overflights to land in the environmentally sensitive Galapagos Islands, ...

Two Ecuadorean government ministers confirmed the plan, saying U.S. military aircraft used in anti-drug trafficking efforts could occasionally use the airport on San Cristóbal Island for refueling ...