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In Ecuador, Increased Dangers at Sea Hinder Seabird Conservation (Audubon Magazine)

SANTA ELENA, ECUADOR – Bobbing up and down some 10 miles from the port of Santa Rosa, Ecuador, Victor Balón turns off his motorboat and cuts up bits of fish. His crewman, Viejo, uses the flesh to bait hooks on a fishing line, which he slides into long PVC tubes fastened to the side ofContinueContinue reading “In Ecuador, Increased Dangers at Sea Hinder Seabird Conservation (Audubon Magazine)”

‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping (The Guardian)

QUITO, ECUADOR – Raul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rainforest in north-east Ecuador for more than 20 years. It has not been easy, he says, recalling the threats he has received over the years for reporting illegal hunters and loggers in reserves, but he never considered giving up.ContinueContinue reading “‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping (The Guardian)”