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A. lilacina at Chester Zoo. The lilacine amazon (Amazona autumnalis lilacina) or Ecuadorian red-lored amazon [2] is an amazon parrot native to Ecuador in South America.According to the IOC World Bird List, it is still considered to be a subspecies of the red-lored amazon, [3] although Birdlife International considers it to be a separate species, as Amazona lilacina [4] - as does the ...
In October 2013, Indigenous organizations from the southeastern Ecuadorian Amazon took part in a 250-kilometre (160 mi) march to Quito, Ecuador's capital. [4] This was a response to the eleventh oil licensing round in their territories, which would allow for oil extraction. [ 4 ]
The purple-throated cotinga (Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema) is a species of bird in the cotinga family, Cotingidae. It is found in the western Amazon rainforest of South America; its range extends from southern Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and Peru and east through extreme northwestern Bolivia and into western Amazonian Brazil.
Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature Conservancy said on ...
Vrio, the U.S. firm that manages the Latin American branch of DirecTV as well as Sky Brasil, will offer the service to customers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
The main scientific laboratory at TBS. Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) is a scientific field research center in the Ecuadorian Amazon.It was established in 1995 by Universidad San Francisco de Quito in collaboration with Boston University, and is jointly managed by them as a center of education, research and conservation.
The Andean condor is the national bird of Ecuador.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands.The avifauna of Ecuador has 1669 confirmed species, of which eight are endemic to the mainland and 31 are endemic to the Galápagos.
Village along the west bank of Napo River in Peru, a few miles above confluence with the Amazon. The land visible beyond the waterway is an island in the river. Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems ...