2001-05-24 04:00:00 PDT Mindo, Ecuador-- When Benjamin Mora, 63, gazes at nearby hills and imagines an oil pipeline cutting through the area's Andean cloud forest, he gets the jitters. Mora ...

For this, credit the surrounding cloud forest, a specific variety of tropical or subtropical ecosystem that occurs at just the right mix of altitude — Mindo’s valley varies from 4,500 to 8,000 ...

Suspended in an open gondola high above Ecuador’s Mindo cloud forest, we were enjoying an ... like hummingbirds of prismatic beauty and owl butterflies with eye spots like chocolate minstrels ...

This is because the reserve is set in the perfect place for evolution to run wild: cloud forest spanning vast ... unknown species and perhaps genera of butterflies (still under review), a number ...

Sky-high in the Andes, Mashpi Lodge offers intrepid travellers the opportunity to come face to face with the cloud forest’s residents ... We exit, pursued by butterflies, and scramble up ...

With just 2% of the Chocó Cloud Forest remaining, Ecuador's Mashpi Lodge brings a luxuriously innovative approach to its conservation by immersing guests in jungle adventures. The morning sun ...

Millions of monarch butterflies winter in the cloud forests ... settle in the treetops of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest, much like the elfin woods warbler makes its home in Puerto Rico ...