Photo: David Ceballos, Desfiladero de Papallacta (Some rights reserved)
Planeta.com is updating our guide to Wild Ecuador – the country’s biodiversity, wildlife, parks and protected areas and the opportunities for ecotourism, conscious, local, Indigenous, and responsible travel. Relevant additions and suggestions are welcome.
Headlines
The Impact of Ecotourism in Ecuador: A Case Study – Guillemette Gandon/Earth.Org
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights
Ecuador frees cash for Galapagos conservation with $1.6 billion bond buyback – Reuters
Una reserva fronteriza, en gestación – El Comercio
Perú y Ecuador establecerán primera Reserva de Biosfera binacional de Sudamérica (Peru and Ecuador establish first binational Biosphere Reserve in South America)
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More tourists visit the protected areas of Ecuador – The Hour
Features
Ecuador’s best national parks are wild wonderlands – Lonely Planet
Ministerio del Ambiente y Agua
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INABIO
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Amazonas 2.0
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National Parks
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Mapa
Cayambe-Coca
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Wikipedia
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Ecuador Ministry of Environment
Project Financial Sustainability of Protected Areas SNAP
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Ecuador Ministry of Environment
Machalilla
Machalilla – Trade
Mashpi Biosphere Reserve
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Sangay National Park
Sucúa, a village with 15,000 inhabitants acerca.
fallingrain.com
Elsewhere on the Web
protectedplanet.net/country/EC
ecuador.inaturalist.org
National Parks – Ecuadorial
Publications
Economic valuation of tourism in the National System of Protected Areas (PDF)
Cities
Quito’s Parks and Gardens
Acción Ecológica
https://www.planeta.com/1612accionecologica http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-to-Investigate-NGO-Following-Amazon-Protest-Violence-20161222-0009.html
https://intercontinentalcry.org/ecuadors-standing-rock/
http://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/gobierno-notificacion-disolucion-accionecologica-panantza.html
http://www.ecuadortransparente.com/noticias/pais/organizaion_accion_ecologica_dice_que_hay_un_prontuariado_socioambiental_de_empresas_chinas_en_ecuador.asp
http://www.larepublica.ec/blog/portada/2016/12/20/inician-proceso-de-disolucion-de-accion-ecologica-por-pedido-de-minera-china-ecsa
http://www.corape.org.ec/quito-inicia-proceso-de-disolucion-contra-accion-ecologica/
http://www.accionecologica.org
Reserva Biológica El Cóndor
areasprotegidas.ambiente.gob.ec
lahora.com.ec
Wikipedia
National parks in Ecuador
National Parks of Ecuador (Category)
Features
Parks
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