When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images A cloud forest in Ecuador could be ...

“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 ...

SINANGOE/PUYO, Ecuador, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Marcelo Lucitante deftly climbs a tree and attaches a camera trap, camouflaged ...

Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the ...

QUITO, Ecuador— In an unprecedented case, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has applied the constitutional provision on the “Rights of Nature” to safeguard the Los Cedros cloud forest from mining ...

The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve covers 1,237,395 hectares (3,057,671 acres) of Andean and Amazonian forests in the Morona Santiago province of eastern Ecuador. The area has cloud forests, sandstone ...

In the mountains surrounding Quito, Ecuador, a new species remained hidden until a photo was posted online. Vince Fleming via Unsplash On a beautiful, sunny morning in the forests surrounding Quito, ...

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 ...

Research Location: Choco rainforest , Ecuador Conservation Partners: Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales (FCAT), an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty from Tulane ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article is more than 4 years old. Ecuadorian researcher María Claudia Segovia Salcedo, in Cayambe Coca National Park, Ecuador ...