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 ...

In the Ecuador wilderness (guides Nelson, at the helm, and Paa), Charles Bergman sought the roots of the illegal animal trade (a blue-headed parrot chick). Charles Bergman Two fire-red birds swooped ...

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.

A massive oil spill in Ecuador, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million residents. A ...

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 ...

When researchers heralded the olinguito as the first new carnivore species discovered in the western hemisphere for 35 years last August, I imagined that seeing one would be impossible. After all, ...

The capital city of Quito is no longer just a stop-off point for travelers headed to Ecuador’s biodiversity hot spots. In the past decade, riders have discovered hundreds of miles of world-class ...

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 ...

Not all animals allow themselves to be seen by humans. Deer, rabbits, and pumas have been captured by camera traps placed in both moors. | Photo courtesy of the Andean Condor Foundation via the Human ...

The problem affects all wildlife - both flora and fauna - on the planet, which are protected by strict laws that stipulate that the animals “have rights.” Laws, however, don’t scare off traffickers, ...

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