President Joe Biden’s administration is dedicating $1 billion to preserve the Ecuadorian Amazon as a means of addressing ...

Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The ...

Throughout most of the twentieth century, the Ecuadorian authorities pursued a geopolitical strategy that reflected a ...

Ecuador’s Amazon trees face extinction risks as seed-dispersing animals vanish. 14% are critically endangered, and 47% may go ...

Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, also known as el Oriente (the East), covers almost half of the country and spans nearly the entire Andean border with Peru and Colombia. The sheer scale is unfathomable – ...

Ecuador announced Tuesday that it had converted part of its $1.5 billion of external debt into protection for the Amazon rainforest, the second so-called debt-for-nature swap in the South American ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Ecuador has launched a $1 billion bond to fund a debt buyback aimed at freeing up financing for conservation projects in the Amazon rainforest, IFR reported on Tuesday.

Ecuador is moving one step closer to complete its second debt-for-nature swap with more than $1.5 billion of the nation’s existing dollar bonds on track to be canceled. Amazon Conservation DAC ...

Ecuador has converted part of its $1.5 billion external debt into a fund aimed at the protection of forests and wetlands in the Amazon rainforest. The Ecuadorian government renegotiated its debt ...

and to stop oil production in part of the Amazon rainforest. "We now have a whole generation of young people who have grown up only knowing that nature has rights," said Ecuadorian political ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature ...