The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat”— marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

In a secluded part of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, river transport is far more common than road travel. Here, boats glide along the Wichimi River, a wide channel that snakes through the dense ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ecuador voters decide on August 20 whether drilling will continue in an oil-rich area of the Amazon. Yasuni National Park is one of the most ecologically diverse ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...

The nomadic Tagaeri and Taromenane rely on hunting and gathering in the Amazon Rainforest of eastern Ecuador, but the area has also been an attractive location for oil development. Several of the ...

Background: Chevron, formerly known as Texaco, contaminated the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest for over 20 years, leaving pollution 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska ...

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 ...

In Ecuador, a 2024 report from environmental advocacy group ... In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous lands. The ...

Canadian mining companies have a long history of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in Latin America. According to a 2023 report by the non-profit Amazon Watch, of the 37 Canadian ...