the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has applied the constitutional provision on the “Rights of Nature” to safeguard the Los Cedros cloud forest from mining concessions. The court voted seven in favor, ...

The study highlights the transformative potential of the Rights of Nature, which views nature as a rights-bearing entity, not merely an object of regulation and subjugation by extractive industries.

and insect bites of their native habitats in the forests and cloud forests of Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil. Woolly monkeys were once considered four species: the gray, Columbian ...

a glass frog expert at the San Francisco University of Quito in Ecuador. “It can be used to protect the whole ecosystem. I call the cloud forest the land of fairies, and glass frogs are part of ...

Isolated and hard-to-reach, cloud forests hold many secrets to the natural world. But climate change is threatening to wipe them out before scientists can get to them first. Found on less than one ...