A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos ...

Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But ...

Ecuador is one of the top exporters of sharks in the world. In February, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) suspended commercial trade in ...

A wildlife photographer has beautiful pictures of graceful sword-billed hummingbirds. Andy Rouse captured the birds—famed for having a bill longer than its own body—both feeding and fighting in the ...

Washington, DC—A report released today by conservation and animal protection groups finds that Ecuador’s fishing industry does not meet US standards for limiting whale and dolphin bycatch. As a result ...

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, along the banks of the Napo River, shows how biodiversity can thrive when humans don’t interfere. A butterfly sits perched on the shell of an endangered yellow-spotted ...

Birds in hats fly to a festival, mischievous monkeys enjoy their pilfered prizes and the iconic frog musicians shake their maracas. Adriana Garcia brings these images to life, bringing the vibrant ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the ...

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other ...