Ecuador's El Oriente borders Peru and Colombia and bursts with lush green rainforests, insects three times the size we know them to be, exotic plants, picturesque flowers, rivers, waterfalls, and ...

Ecuador argues that leaving the oil in the ground will keep 410 million tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, preserve some of the world’s richest biodiversity, and safeguard indigenous tribes who ...

Over 70% of western Ecuador’s lowland rainforest was cut down and largely converted to plantations growing bananas, coffee and cacao. In the world of botany, Centinela became a byword for rapid ...

Flower of the parasitic plant Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), the corpse flower, Borneo. It has no stem, or leaves to produce food, instead it grows out of a vine on which it feeds.

I n the 1980s, the mass extinction of 90 flora species occurred in a cloud forest when a coastal Ecuadorian hilltop was ...

On the outskirts of Ecuador’s rainforest, Baños is the gateway to Ruta de las Cascadas, an itinerary that takes in several waterfalls. Photograph by Carlos Gómez, Getty Images.

The Mashpi Rainforest Lodge is a stunning modern retreat tucked away in the depths of the Ecuadorian cloudforest.