The Choco region in northwest Ecuador is hosting a groundbreaking experiment to try and help its rainforests recover from rampant deforestation. A multinational team is planting small “tree islands" ...

After conducting research in Ecuador and Colombia, Rebecca Tarvin, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, has identified a unique genetic lineage of poison frogs as a new ...

BOGOTÁ — There may be no region across Colombia’s rich and diversity territory, that is as varied, surprising and special as the Chocó region. Its rainforest is much older and more primitive than the ...

J. Leighton Reid and his team have an opportunity to research the most efficient and cost-effective means of restoring a tropical rainforest in Ecuador. Reid, assistant professor in the School of ...

HOJA BLANCO, Ecuador — Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were believed to live there. Even when loggers moved ...

Sitting in the six-acre Mashpi Reserve, the lodge offers complete immersion in the Choco rainforest. It’s a three-hour drive across the equator from Quito (Mashpi has its own car and minibus service ...