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10/3/2013
The flight from Quito to Coca, a small
oil town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, takes off a couple of hours late, so we don't reach Coca until around noon. Then we have to take a helicopter up the Napo river to reach Añangu, in the heart of
Yasuni, the ...
5/3/2013
While they were growing up in their remote community deep in the Ecuadorean Amazon, Blanca Tapuy and her sister Innes were inseparable.
As children, they would play together while their parents hunted monkeys and tapir with blowpipes and ...
26/1/2013
Ecuador's plan to refrain from drilling for
oil in its
rainforests in return for money remains controversial. Critics have questioned the tangible benefits of the project for the forest and its residents.
In 2007, Ecudaor's President ...
19/1/2013
American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in. One is a harvester, or daddy-long-legs, another a jumping spider which leaps on to a leaf where two beetles are mating.
This ...
17/1/2013
An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run
oil company.
The residents of Sani ...
13/1/2013
In what looks set to be one of the most one-sided struggles in the history of Amazon forest conservation, an indigenous community of about 400 villagers is preparing to resist the Ecuadorean army and one of the biggest
oil companies in South ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical
rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
26/11/2012
The
Yasuni-ITT Initiative has been called many things: controversial, ecological blackmail, revolutionary, pioneering, and the best chance to keep
oil companies out of Ecuador's
Yasuni National Park. But now, after a number of ups and downs, the ...
19/10/2012
About a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part of the Amazon
rainforest in return for barring
oil drilling, the head of the initiative said on Friday.
Ivonne Baki said the scheme ...
3/9/2012
Two of the world's last uncontacted tribes are under threat from
oil exploration deep into the heart of the Amazon forest in Ecuador, according to conservationists, who say this may indirectly add to the pressure on wildlife.
The Tagaeri ...
17/3/2012
The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní
rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. The diversity of species in the Yasuní Park is unmatched by any other park in the world. One hectare contains more species of ...
3/1/2012
A large undeveloped
oil field in a national
rainforest reserve in Ecuador will remain off-limits to
oil companies for at least a year, the government said.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa agreed to keep
oil companies out of the
Yasuni ...
2/1/2012
A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its
Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100 million mark that Ecuador said it needed to keep the program ...
28/12/2011
2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest ...
20/12/2011
After decades of depending on bauxite, timber and gold for revenue, Guyana proposed five years ago that wealthy foreigners pay it to protect its tropical South American
rainforests.
The idea was hailed as an innovative way to spur ...
22/9/2011
A new map highlights the importance of conserving
Yasuni National Park as the most biodiverse ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere, and maybe even on Earth. Scientists released the map to coincide with the United National General Assembly in ...
17/7/2011
In 2007, Ecuador floated an unprecedented proposal: it would leave a fifth of its
oil reserves – 846m barrels of crude – underground for the health of the planet if, in return, the international community stumped up $350bn (£217bn), half its ...
8/4/2011
Ecuador’s decision to forego potentially lucrative
oil drilling in the Amazon forest in order to protect a biologically rich and fragile ecosystem is the focus of two documentaries at the Washington Environmental Film Festival.
The ...
3/1/2011
In the verdant underworld of the Amazon
rainforest, shielded from the sun’s rays by the electric green foliage of towering kapok trees, many hazards can trap the unwary.Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you ...
13/12/2010
Being at Cancun has thus far been an incredible opportunity. I arrived here on Saturday evening, and upon the advice of my fellow Yale delegates, I quickly got into the ocean as they said this was probably the only chance I would have to enjoy ...
11/11/2010
The Spanish government is "analysing mechanisms to contribute" one million euros (1.3 million dollars) to the
Yasuni-ITT initiative, one of the few definite contributions received by Ecuador for a scheme to leave
oil reserves untouched in a ...
28/10/2010
Although most Americans have likely seen photos and videos of the world's largest
rainforest, the Amazon, they will probably never see it face-to-face. For many, the Amazon seems incredibly remote: it is a dim, mysterious place, a jungle surfeit ...
28/9/2010
One of the most extraordinary people I have met in 10 days of travelling around Peru and Ecuador has been Alberto Acosta. He's head of Ecuador's leading research group now, but until 2007 was the second most powerful man in the country after the ...
22/9/2010
We left thirsty Peru and have reached Quito in Ecuador on the great Oxfam/Guardian Andean climate journey. First stop is to meet the government and community leaders of a state that stretches from the Pacific coast, over the mountains, and deep ...
14/9/2010
Tonight we are in Lima, Peru's coastal capital city. It's freezing, with a bitter wind coming off the Pacific, but it's going to get worse. Tomorrow we go to Cusco at 3,400m to acclimatise and from there we're heading up into the really high ...