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‘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)”

A month of war: How did once-serene Ecuador descend into a nightmare of narco violence? (Courthouse News)

QUITO, ECUADOR – In November, Juana Francis Bone’s 14-year-old niece went to the corner store for a minute and never came back. When her family filed a police report, they were told each officer had some 60 missing person cases on their shoulders. Her niece would be just one more. Francis is a law studentContinueContinue reading “A month of war: How did once-serene Ecuador descend into a nightmare of narco violence? (Courthouse News)”