Reporting from Quito, Ecuador — Ecuador’s defense minister on Monday defended his country’s decision to allow U.S. anti-drug overflights to land in the environmentally sensitive Galapagos Islands, ...

QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador has released 201 tortoises on Santa Fe Island in the Galapagos archipelago, where a similar subspecies went extinct more than 150 years ago. Santa Fe is the former home to ...

A large fleet of some 260 Chinese fishing vessels has been spotted in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, the country’s navy officials said last week. The Ecuadorian ...

The Galapagos Islands, home of the unusual flora and fauna that inspired naturalist Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking work on evolution, are striving to promote clean energy that protects the area’s ...

Ecuador has declared a state of emergency on the Galápagos Islands after a freighter carrying chemicals and dangerous products ran aground last week, according to a statement from the Environment ...

The Galapagos Islands never go out of season. That’s the pitch from Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic, which has created “prime-season” rates available now through March on selected 10-day ...

Ecuador has reportedly given the US military permission to use a Galapagos island as an airfield, angering critics in the South American country who say the agreement is unconstitutional. Under an ...

A large fleet of some 260 Chinese fishing vessels has been spotted in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, the country’s navy officials said last week. The Ecuadorian ...