By Isabel Alarcón Willan Gualinga first stepped onto a stage in his home community of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in the province of Pastaza. He recalls his hands sweating, his body trembling, ...

Ecuador’s constitution guarantees species existential rights—but what happens when those rights are pitted against human ...

By Doug Hansen If I close my eyes, I can still feel the warm tropical breeze blowing across my face as our cigar-shaped ...

An Ecuador wildlife lodge is pairing bear watching with a compensation program for nearby farmers, giving visitors a rare look at wild spectacled bears while reducing pressure on local people to push ...

Lauren Sánchez Bezos highlights the Fernandina Galápagos tortoise, a species lost for 113 years that now has a chance at ...

Plastic pollution is a growing threat to marine environments, with discarded waste reaching from coastlines to the deepest ...

The capture in Colombia of Ronald Javier Macías Villamar, alias Javi, an alleged leader of the Los Choneros terrorist ...

Australia’s richest woman’s company is chasing copper and gold in the Andes. Local communities want no part of it.

Something new is crawling into the Houston Zoo's reptile house, and one of the arrivals marks a first in the zoo's history.

After the powerful 1998 El Niño, only 400 of the 1,300 existing Galápagos penguins remained. View on euronews ...