Voters were asked whether to ban mining in the highlands and further oil drilling in Yasuni National Park in the Amazon. With over 90% of the ballots counted, some six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected ...

The study also detected cultural transformations in Indigenous communities as a result of the extractions. The latest study ...

Nemonte Nenquimo was just 6 years old when she heard the hum of a plane overhead bringing white people to her village in the Amazon. Nenquimo is Indigenous Waorami, and she has spent the last decade ...

Mabuya yasuniensis, or the Yasuní skink, was originally caught in Yasuní National Park in 2016, according to a study published Sept. 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Vertebrate Zoology.

His passion for nature led him from wildlife biology in North America to the Ecuadorian Amazon, where he became captivated by Yasuni National Park’s extraordinary biodiversity. In 2005 ...

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Yasuni National Park, part of the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, is probably the most biodiverse place on the planet. Home to many unique and endemic species, the national park, almost 1 million hectares ...

White-bark Cecropias line the twisting river, which follows part of the northern boundary of the backward-C–shaped national park. Above us the high branches of massive kapok trees are dripping ...

Research by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) reveals an unbalanced distribution of the impacts generated by the ...