A cloud forest in Ecuador could be recognised as an author: the latest development in a burgeoning global movement to grant legal rights to nature. The More-Than-Human-Life (Moth) Project ...

Ecuador's Intellectual Property Rights Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The idea of a forest holding copyright is not as far-fetched as it may seem, says Rodríguez ...

A petition has been submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise Los Cedros cloud, an Ecuadorian forest roughly 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) in size, as a co-creator of a musical ...

A cloud forest in northern Ecuador is protected from deforestation and mining after being recognised as an entity possessing legal personhood. For more than 30 years, José DeCoux woke each ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue in a rainforest of Ecuador and discovered a new species. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto As night fell across a ...

The campaign comes as Ecuador’s President, Daniel Noboa, announced plans last year to auction off 8.7 million acres of Indigenous territory in the Amazon rain forest to oil companies—despite ...

Scientists found a “copper”-eyed creature with a “distinctive” throat marking in a mountainous forest and discovered a new species. Google Street View ...