2001-05-24 04:00:00 PDT Mindo, Ecuador-- When Benjamin Mora, 63, gazes at nearby hills and imagines an oil pipeline cutting through the area's Andean cloud forest, he gets the jitters. Mora, who owns ...

Whether you're looking for cloud forests, colonial towns, or coral reefs, here’s where to plan your next trip.

From LAX, connecting service (change of planes) is available to Quito, Ecuador, on Continental, American, Copa, Delta, LAN and Avianca. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $368. Regular bus service ...

I’ve often fantasized about retracing the steps of such naturalists as Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt and William Bartram, who saw exotic places and recorded, in detail, the plants and animals ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Somewhere in a tiny town nestled in the rugged Andean ...

Julia Butterfly Hill, California's well-known tree sitter and environmental activist, has been jailed in Ecuador for protesting a proposed oil pipeline that would penetrate a virgin Andean "cloud ...

MINDO, Ecuador—Natalia Greene ducks her head underneath the fronds of a giant fern. It is pitch black in the Chocó Andino cloud forest and Greene is searching for spiders, frogs and other nocturnal ...