If you liked this story, share it with other people. Juan Manuel Carrión recalls that 30 years ago he was one of the first to warn that wildlife trafficking would become a major threat to Ecuador’s ...

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Follow wildlife photographer Dan Suzio on an intensive 12-day tour to Ecuador, home to more than 1,600 species of birds. Highlights include 10 days of photography at seven birding locations, including ...

Darwin’s field notes on the Galapagos Islands declare that it is a little world within itself, and nothing can be truer than this. The archipelago is known for two things: Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

What harm can a simple road do in a pristine place such as Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great deal, it turns out.

I have to admit, it is tasty. The flavours that wash over my palate hit the kind of gastronomic note rarely fulfilled when the phrase ‘local delicacy’ is uttered. In fact, comprehending the notion ...

In some areas in Ecuador, howler monkeys are affected by habitat loss due to forest fragmentation and illegal hunting. Ecuador’s Health Ministry has ruled out the theory that the primates’ deaths have ...

An unruly crowd was occupying the beach, clearly having a good time and obviously not ready to surrender any of their carefully guarded portion of sand to new arrivals. Partying students letting their ...

Shark fins worth up to $1.5m discovered after raids on nine properties in the port city of Manta Police in the Ecuadorian port city of Manta say they have seized about 200,000 shark fins destined to ...