New Delhi: As the world celebrates International Coffee Day, Ecuador is showcasing its new initiative that promises to protect forests and promote sustainable agriculture. The “Deforestation ...

By Maxwell Radwin Banks in Latin America are under increasing pressure to develop financial policies that support the ...

A cloud forest in northern Ecuador is protected from deforestation and mining after being recognised as an entity possessing legal personhood. For more than 30 years, José DeCoux woke each ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San Francisco University of Quito in Ecuador. “It’s almost invisible because ...

In Ecuador, provinces like Morona Santiago ... Backing many of these efforts to slow deforestation is the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force, which California’s then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ...

By the 1980s, deforestation reached Centinela ... documented in a 1991 study called “Biological Extinction in Western Ecuador.” A biodiversity hot spot seemingly had been extinguished.

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting ... Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guyana also saw a surge in fires this year. The United Nations conference on ...

In Ecuador, production is forecast to reach ... “In (Ivory Coast) and Ghana so much deforestation has already happened, but there are also other origins, where there is a need to more actively ...

And that rarely prioritized issue is global deforestation. Despite trillions of dollars at stake, forest destruction—and the corporate role in driving it—is still widely treated as a ...