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‘Cryptic reptiles’ have been found living under gravestones in Ecuador

It’s hoped that identifying the reptiles will help reverse their fortunes and protect the country’s diminishing cloud forest.

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Indigenous groups team up with the government to protect the Amazon

Communities in the Amazon, NGOs and local governments are teaming up in an unprecedented show of solidarity.

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Galapagos Island iguanas thrive after 187 years of extinction

Nearly 200 years after it was first sighted by Charles Darwin, this iguana has made an epic comeback.

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Ecuadorian Indigenous people celebrate deal to cut fuel prices

Ecuadorian Indigenous people celebrate after their leaders and the government signed a deal that would cut fuel prices and end cost-of-living protests that largely paralysed the country for 18 straight days.

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Ecuador demonstrators take to streets

Ecuador demonstrators take to streets on day 11 of anti-govt protests. Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters.

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Indigenous protesters gather at university in Quito over night after protest

Ecuador's Indigenous demonstrators gather at Central University in Quito to spend the night, where many are using it as a place of accommodation during the protest period.

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Ecuador: clashes between protesters and police on fuel price cuts

Protesters in Quito burn tires as police use tear gas during a march to demand a fuel price cut amid rising inflation, unemployment, and poverty in the oil-producing South American country.

Republic of Ecuador

Another Ecuador prison clash leaves 43 inmates dead

A clash between rival Ecuadorian gangs has left 43 inmates dead, officials said Monday, little more than a month after another prison riot resulted in 20 deaths.

Food and Drink

How has the Russia-Ukraine war devastated Ecuador's banana industry?

It seems like a strange question but Ecuador is the world's largest banana exporter, and the sector has been hammered by the war in Ukraine.

Nature

Ecuador grants wild animals legal rights in landmark court case

It is thought to be the first time the country’s constitutional protection of nature has been applied in court.

Republic of Ecuador

Police: Ecuadorian prison clash leaves dozens dead

Clashes inside Ecuador’s largest prison early on Saturday left at least 58 inmates dead.

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Ecuador: Road blockade on second day of strikes

Main roads in at least ten provinces of Ecuador remained blocked on Wednesday on the second day of a national strike against fuel price hikes and President Guillermo Lasso's economic policies.

Republic of Ecuador

State of emergency declared in Ecuador’s prisons after 116 die in riot

Officials said at least five of the dead in the riot at Litoral penitentiary in Guayaquil were beheaded.

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Galapagos' pink iguanas now critically endangered

The rare Galapagos' pink iguanas earlier this week were declared as a critically endangered species by environmental organizations, after an expedition in early August estimated only 211 specimens still populate their native Wolf Volcano.

United Kingdom

Ecuadorian court revokes citizenship for Julian Assange

Ecuadorian authorities say Assange’s naturalization letter had multiple inconsistencies, different signatures, the possible alteration of documents and unpaid fees, among other issues.

Republic of Ecuador

Ecuador picks conservative Guillermo Lasso for president

Ex-banker Guillermo Lasso defeated left-wing economist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador's presidential runoff.

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Ecuador prison riots: Number of inmates dead in rises to 79

Authorities have said the clashes that began on Monday night were precipitated by a search for weapons carried out at the facilities in the South American nation.

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Endangered Galapagos giant tortoises released back into the wild

Tortoises were quarantined and marked before their release on Espanola Island, which now hosts the Cheloinidis hoodensis species of the tortoise.

World News

COVID-19 spreading across Latin America

Cases of coronavirus are spreading rapidly in parts of Latin America and threaten to overwhelm already weak medical services

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Scientists find tortoise genetically linked to extinct species

She is thought to be linked to Lonesome George, who died in 2012 and was the last known tortoise of the Pinta Island (Chelonoidis abingdonii) species.