Sentences with phrase «amazonian ecuador»

We have seen in posts like Ecuador Says Show Me the Money, Or the Rainforest Gets It and in our slideshow A Look at the Napo Wildlife Center in Amazonia that the government is perfectly willing to compromise Amazonian Ecuador to squeeze a few more barrels of oil out to generate foreign exchange.

Discovered by a team of scientists led by Dr. Juan M. Guayasamin from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the description of the new frog, «A marvelous new glassfrog (Centrolenidae, Hyalinobatrachium) from Amazonian Ecuador,» is published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

This new species, however, from Amazonian Ecuador takes it a step further by fully exposing its heart thanks to the transparent skin stretching all across its underside.

Even better when the story is real, as in the $ 10 - billion legal battle over oil spills in the rainforest of Amazonian Ecuador.

I visited Amazonian Ecuador in 2009 as a guest of the Rainforest Alliance.

The amphibians and reptiles of the Estación Biológica Jatun Sacha in the lowland rainforest of Amazonian Ecuador.

When the researchers recently conducted fieldwork in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru, they revealed it was not the snake singing.

Not exact matches

In five decades of traveling, I've crossed countries by rickshaw, pedicab, bus, car, minivan, and bush taxi; a handful by train (Italy, Switzerland, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Greece); two by riverboat (Gabon and Germany); Norway by coastal steamer; Gambia and the Amazonian parts of Peru and Ecuador by motorized canoe; and half of Burma by motor scooter.

Ecuador also failed to convince donor countries by opening up new Amazonian areas for drilling.

Roadless oil exploration practices are already in use in Ecuador's Block 10, a region of Amazonian forest near Yasuni, notes Bass.

«We started working with fishing snakes a year ago as new specimens were collected in poorly explored areas of the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru,» explains lead author Dr. Omar Torres - Carvajal.

Melza and Ted Barr acquired this collection of Amazonian vessels and sculpture while living in Quito, Ecuador, in the late 1980s and on subsequent trips to the region in the early»90s.

Rain Forest Visions: Amazonian Ceramics from Ecuador, the Melza and Ted Barr Collection Sept. 19, 2015 — Feb. 14, 2016 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

(5/24/2007) Marketwatch reported more details on Ecuador's proposal to forgo development of Amazonian oil fields in exchange for payments from industrialized nations.