The Cofán people in Ecuador watch over the forest to defend it from invaders. After studying in the U.S., Hugo Lucitante returned home to help.

A cloud forest in Ecuador could be recognised as an author: the latest development in a burgeoning global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project, an ...

José Gualinga discusses his Kichwa People of Sarayaku’s visionary Living Forest Declaration and the importance of ...

“Trees speak in your leaves, please. And streams tell me your dreams…” Writer Robert Macfarlane was mumbling these lyrics from a random page of his notebook. It was nighttime, and the high forest was ...

Jane Fonda has always been one to stand up for what she believes in. With a lifetime of activism under her belt, the Oscar-winning actress has turned her attention to the climate crisis—choosing ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the ...

Scientists found a “copper”-eyed creature with a “distinctive” throat marking in a mountainous forest and discovered a new species. Google Street View ...

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, ...

A delegation from Alianza Ceibo, Amazon Frontlines, representatives of other Amazonian nationalities, and activist Jane Fonda, on a tour about the damage caused by oil extraction in the Amazon.