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 ...

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador (CN) - While pressing ahead with her country's campaign, "The Dirty Hand of Chevron," Ecuador's environmental minister has been facing friendly fire from the same plaintiffs who ...

While visiting Ecuador, if you lack the time and/or money for a multi-day tour into the Amazon with a stay at a jungle lodge, you can still get a taste of the rainforest just five hours from Quito, ...

In what may amount to a historic moment in the quest to save the world’s rainforests and mitigate climate change, Ecuador and the United Nations Development Fund (UNDF) have created a trust fund to ...

Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country's 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports. The report ...

Geckos Adventures specializes in small-group travel with local guides. Among its last-minute discounts for this fall: an eight-day trip to Ecuador starting at $645 per person. The deal: The trip ...

YASUNI, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador is asking donors to give it $3.6 billion in exchange for it not drilling for oil in part of Yasuni park, a jungle reserve that is home to an astounding variety of ...

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.

BOGOTA, Colombia – BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion ...