Ecuadorian eco-resort Mashpi Lodge sits in the middle of the Chocó-Andean forest. Constructed using environmentally friendly techniques, the property is designed to be at one with nature. It's ...

Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

During a bird-photography tour Kathy and I led to Ecuador in June, six of us hiked before dawn through a dark, dense jungle in a montane cloud forest at the Refugio Paz de las Aves nature preserve.

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The director of a foundation that works in Ecuador’s rainforest says Amazon tribesmen apparently carried out a revenge attack and killed an undetermined number of people from a ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9 billion judgment in the U.S. against energy company Chevron for rainforest damage, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, upholding a judge's ...

SINANGOE, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Ecuador's constitutional court judges traveled to the heart of the Amazon to hear indigenous communities defend their right to oppose mining projects in their territories ...