‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

Raul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rainforest in north-east Ecuador for more than 20 years. It has not been easy, he says, recalling the threats he has received over the years for reporting illegal hunters …

Venomous snake native to Ecuador found in New Hampshire banana shipment

A venomous snake from Ecuador turned up in a bunch of bananas at a New Hampshire grocery store on Saturday, according to state wildlife officials. A lone ornate cat-eye snake, a mildly venomous species native to Ecuador, hitchhiked its way to the colder …

Ecuador names newly-discovered frog species after Leonardo DiCaprio. Here's why

After a new frog species was discovered in Ecuador, it wasa named after Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, according to a report in The Telegraph. Ecuador's new frog species, Phyllonastes Dicaprioi, honors Leonardo DiCaprio for …

‘We Moved to Ecuador for a Better Way of Life—Here’s What You Need To Know’

Americans fed up with the high cost of living and divisive politics are moving abroad in droves in the hope of a calmer, cheaper way of life. "We received a rush of applications in the middle of [2024], a sort of slowdown period from July to mid- …

Ecuador will become a big headache for U.S. if leftist party wins runoff election

Ecuador’s February 9 election result is bad news for the United States, and for the cause of democracy in Latin America. The leftist populist party of former president Rafael Correa — a close ally of Venezuela’s dictatorship — did better than expected, and …

Ecuador hitmen gun down cartel-busting colonel Cedeno

GUAYAQUIL: Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime that has plunged this once-peaceful South American country into violence. Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeno, who led an …

Hitmen target anti-drug chief in violence-torn Ecuador

An Ecuadorian colonel in command of anti-drug operations was shot dead by hitmen on Friday in a city severely affected by the drug trade that has sparked bloodshed in this otherwise calm South American nation. According to police, Colonel Porfirio Cedeno, …

President Daniel Noboa has responded to Ecuador's security crisis by declaring a state of emergency, making high-profile ...

Ecuador’s presidential voting moves to second round, with U.S. paying attention

Daniel Noboa and Luisa González will vie for the presidential seat in a runoff election in April. (Wikimedia Commons/Presidencia de la República del Ecuador/CC BY-SA 2.0) Voting took place on February 9 for Ecuador’s next president. With 96% of the …

Urgent: 5.0-magnitude quake hits Off Coast of Ecuador -- GFZ

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Off Coast of Ecuador at 1421 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 1.12 …