Botanists have described two new species of Monopyle, a relative of the African violet, from forest fragments on Ecuador's Centinela ridge. One grows nowhere else and is assessed as Endangered.
Young Kichwa, A'i Cofán, Shuar and Sapara artists in Ecuador's Amazon are rapping in their own languages about oil and mining threats, and one track has passed 400,000 views on TikTok in a month.
A critically endangered Galápagos plant has made a remarkable comeback, growing from just six known survivors into a recovering wild population after decades of dedicated conservation work.
