Ecuador completed a debt-for-nature swap to support Amazon conservation through the creation of the Amazon Biocorridor. While ...

In the balmy tropics of Ecuador, the vibrant pitahaya, or dragon fruit, stands out like a brilliant jewel against the ...

The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change is working with the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito to establish a scientific center for biodiversity research ...

A cloud forest in Ecuador could be recognised as an author: the latest development in a burgeoning global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project ...

The view outside from this eco-hotel in northern Ecuador reveals vast hillsides still scarred by fires. In late January 2024, ...

Touring the FONAG watershed in Quito, Ecuador, with The Nature Conservancy and partners. Water Funds as an Innovative, Scalable Solution to Water Crises and Management Too often, cities are built ...

Ecuador’s Biological Diversity & Rights of Nature Ecuador is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. It ...

Nature Materials - As the First International Nanotechnology Congress hosted in Quito clearly corroborated, Ecuador is betting on nanotechnology as one of its proposed key investment areas. It is ...

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 ...

Ecuadorians will choose their next president in a runoff vote in April after the first round produced no clear winner.

In this unprecedented case, the court could use Ecuador’s constitutional provision on the “Rights of Nature” to protect the forest from mining. Two-thirds of the reserve are now covered by mining ...