Ecuadorian eco-resort Mashpi Lodge sits in the middle of the Chocó-Andean forest. Constructed using environmentally friendly techniques, the property is designed to be at one with nature. It's ...

During a bird-photography tour Kathy and I led to Ecuador in June, six of us hiked before dawn through a dark, dense jungle in a montane cloud forest at the Refugio Paz de las Aves nature preserve.

SINANGOE, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Ecuador's constitutional court judges traveled to the heart of the Amazon to hear indigenous communities defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories ...

SINANGOE — Ecuador’s constitutional court judges traveled to the heart of the Amazon to hear indigenous communities defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories during a historic ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's still dark when we start the ascent – 199 breathless steps up a metal spiral staircase that corkscrews into the forest canopy. As ...

YASUNI, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador is asking donors to give it $3.6 billion in exchange for it not drilling for oil in part of Yasuni park, a jungle reserve that is home to an astounding variety of ...

SINANGOE (Reuters) – Ecuador’s constitutional court judges traveled to the heart of the Amazon to hear indigenous communities defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories during a ...

The Amazon rain forest is filled with indigenous communities that have limited contact with the outside world. But the Cofan, who administer a territory nearly the size of Delaware, are a bit ...

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Two hundred years later, Isabelle Godin des Odonnais, returning home after completing a French expedition to the Equator, hit upon the spectacularly bad idea of cutting across the continent rather ...

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