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By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Earlier this year, Ecuador’s new President Guillermo Lasso issued decrees to expand oil and mining projects in the Amazon. Indigenous communities from the country’s rainforest are now suing the government in an effort to stop these projects, calling them a “policy of death,” according to reporting by Reuters. Community […]
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Galápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought to be extinct https://t.co/wtAk3KZR0t pic.twitter.com/DM1fgrM7Hx — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 27, 2021 Scientists were thrilled to report last week the discovery of a species of tortoise that was believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years. Known as the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, the Galápagos […]
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As Mother Nature Network reported, Ecuador has become the first country in the world to build a “quiet park,” a lush stretch of land straddling the Zabalo River where silence is protected like a natural resource. There are no transport routes here. Nor residential and commercial developments. You can’t even hear the hum of power […]
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By Tessa Cafritz and Monica Medina Even as experts warn about the rapid pace of species extinction, there are discoveries that provide hope, wonder, and new insights as well. Early in January, National Geographic reported that biologists recently discovered a new species of tree frog —Hylosciirtus hillisi — that they named after a famous U.S. evolutionary biologist David […]
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