The real world analog of "Common Side Effects" underscores the loss of biodiversity before we even know what's gone ...

For four decades, it was believed that a large-scale plant extinction event took place in a tropical cloud forest in Ecuador. However, a team of researchers led by Dawson M. White from Harvard ...

and Universidad de Las Américas say that nearly all of the plant species believed to have gone extinct have been rediscovered in cloud forest remnants or other sites in South America. In fact ...

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.

The Nepenthes rajah, the largest carnivorous pitcher plant in the world endemic to Mount Kinabalu, grows in the Cloud Forest conservatory. Its large vase-like traps can grow up to 41 cm high and ...

A cloud forest in Ecuador could be recognised as an author: the latest development in a burgeoning global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project ...

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, ...

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 ...