🇪🇨Ecuador

Of more than 300 maize varieties Ecuadorian researchers catalogued in the 1960s, this farmer network has been able to find only about 50 still growing, and it is replanting them one season at a time.

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.

Led by Quito recycler Elbia Pisuña, who began sorting at age 14, RENAREC speaks for a workforce that recovers around 90,000 tonnes of material a year.

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

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

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

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.

Nine girls from Ecuador's oil country won a 2021 court order to shut down the open gas flares burning beside their homes, and five years on they are still fighting to make the state obey.