🇪🇨Ecuador

For over three decades this community radio station has been the only daily source of news for six Indigenous nationalities in Ecuador's oil-scarred Amazon, turning listener call-ins about contaminated rivers and deforestation into some of the region's only sustained environmental journalism.

Buys and protects a network of reserves safeguarding a tenth of the world's bird species in Ecuador.

A frontline legal and advocacy organization helping Amazonian indigenous nations win court-ordered title to their ancestral territories.

Indigenous Achuar communities in Ecuador's Amazon build and pilot solar-powered river canoes that replace gasoline outboard motors.

The world's first water fund pays to protect and restore Quito's high-Andean páramo grassland, the source of most of the city's drinking water.

A scientist-founded Ecuadorian NGO has assembled 15 private reserves protecting cloud forest and páramo along the eastern and western Andes.