Tag: Ecuador - Page 2
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Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List
The Galapagos Islands are among the most stunning places on earth. The unparalleled biodiversity and spectacular wildlife makes it a travel destination the world over. But it's also in big trouble. When I traveled there two
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Incredible New Species Discovered in Ecuador
One look at a newly discovered species of gecko, small enough at its full-grown size to rest comfortably on the eraser of a pencil, and it's difficult not to be mesmerized by the seemingly boundless forms of biological
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Ecuador's Plan to Protect the Amazon Gets Deadline, Minister Resigns
Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the country's plan to protect the Yasuni
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Bamboo Hut On Stilts Wins Climate Adaptation Award, Helping Ecuadorian Coastal Dwellers
International Networkd for Bamboo & Rattan (INBAR) won the US$200,000 grant award, as described in their press release. "...Increased flooding in Ecuador's coastal regions often destroy peoples homes. INBAR
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Ecuador Moves Forward with Plan to Not Drill the Amazon in Exchange of Funds
A kid stands on pipes of previous oil extractions in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo: Lou Dematteis for the Crude Reflections book. We spoke about this campaign being in the making before, and about a presentation of it a month ago at the UN, but now it's
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Ecuador Says Show Me the Money, Or the Rainforest Gets It
And not just amy amount of money will do, Ecuador has determined that it will cost $360 million USD a year to protect their rainforest, which just happens to sit on 900 million barrels of oil. Fortunately, Ecuador had a
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Director Joe Berlinger on "Crude" and the Amazonian Chernobyl
The thing they call the "Amazonian Chernobyl" is deep in the Ecuadorian rainforest where decades of oil drilling have left a noxious trail of saturated soil, tainted water, and inky black pits of sludge. Crude, the latest documentary from acclaimed
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Your Choice of Chocolate Matters (Slideshow)
Crack open a cacao pod and this is what you get: a wet, gooey, sticky (but tasty) mess. You can get this two ways: clearing rainforest, adding weedkillers, planting hybrid plants, and selling it cheap to the middlemen. Or, you can grow it more
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Are the Galapagos Being "Regreened?"
Wired does a little tidbit in their latest issue titled Ecuador Regreens the Galápagos. After touring Ecuador with the Rainforest Alliance, I felt that I was so close that I had to see the Galapagos and popped over for a short visit. I wasn't going to
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Does the Benefit of Community Based Tourism Trump the Carbon Footprint?
We know flying is dying, that the carbon footprint of air travel is huge. Many say we shouldn't fly at all. Then you visit places like the Chimborazo region of Ecuador, where community based tourism is a force for keeping people in their homes and
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Bill McKibben on Colbert Report + 5 more Enviro Media Posts of the week
This week environmental activism met political satire as the founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben braved the rapier wit of Stephen Colbert on live television and emerged virtually unscathed, or rather in McKibben's own tweeted words, "survived with at
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The Wildlife of Ecuadorian Amazonia (Slideshow)
There are all kinds of threats to Ecuadorian Amazonia; the oil companies are nipping at the fringes. They build roads and the illegal loggers come in. It gets cleared for palm oil and other agricultural products.
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Are Flush Toilets Appropriate in Third World Countries? (Slideshow)
While visiting Ecuador with the Rainforest Alliance, I expected to see a lot of outhouses. Instead, I found an extraordinary infrastructure of flush toilets in the usual public places, but also beside almost every home and farm in Amazonia. But is it
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Eco-Tourism or Oil? The Sani People Choose. (slideshow)
When I wrote about the Napo Wildlife Center and wondered what options the local native peoples had to hold off the oil companies, one commenter pointed out that I could take the price of my plane ticket and do the right thing by sending them
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Is Eco-Tourism a Contradiction in Terms? Not When You Consider the Alternatives
TreeHugger readers know flying is dying, and that the carbon footprint of travel is a problem. But is the answer to stop travelling? Don't tell that to the Añangu Kichwa of the Napo River in Amazonian Ecuador, who built and run the Napo Wildlife Center
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Why the World Should Pay Ecuador to Keep its Oil in the Ground
A couple of years ago, the government of Ecuador made the world an offer. We will leave some of our oil in the ground, President Rafael Correa announced, if you make it worth our while. His
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Galapagos Island Travel-Specific Carbon Offsets From CanopyCo
While traveling in South America this spring with Green Living Project, I browsed through a local paper while I was waiting for another flight and came across an interesting carbon offset option, geared specifically for
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Maquipucuna Lodge and Reserve: This Ecuadorian Amazon Spot is Alive and Growing
Traveling with Green Living Project, I visited the Maquipucuna Lodge and Reserve, another woman-owned eco-resort, this time in the Ecuadorian Amazon. You're probably
