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Seastars on the sea floor
Starfish
Whitetip reef sharks (Triaenodon obesus)
Nazca booby nesting
Swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) with its chick
Nazca booby
Well-camoflauged frog in the Pristimantis genus in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Masked trogon (Trogon personatus)
Ants swam leaf in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Hummingbird
Red-footed booby
Equipment being transferred on the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Cloud forest
Whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus)
Bird's nest on sunken tree in Tiputini River in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca boobies doing a display
Turquoise water off Rabida Island
Nazca booby with chick
Nazca boobies doing a display
Nazca booby with egg
Seastars on the sea floor
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Cloud forest near Mindo
Young sea lion
Nazca booby
Cloud forest near Mindo
Sharks
Orange fungi
Sea lion pups playing
Cattle wander the bank of the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bats hanging out on ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Hummingbird
Canoes on the edge of the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-footed booby with a broken wing
Outskirts of frontier town, Coca, in the Ecuadorian Amazon
White-tipped reef shark
Red-footed booby
Oil industry infrastructure in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bellavista cloud forest
Nazca booby
Tortoise on top of another tortoise
Nazca booby with chick
Sally Lightfoot Crab
Nazca booby with a chick
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Red-footed booby
Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bom jardim toad (Rhinella dapsilis) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bromeliad
Nazca booby with a chick
Whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus)
Nazca booby with chick
Sunset over Quito
Female silver-beaked tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Settlement near fronter town, Coca, on the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Rainforest tower in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Turtle in Anangucocha lake in Yasuni National Park in Ecuadorean Amazon
Aerial view of Quito, Ecuador
Pinnacle rock of BartolomŽ
Crater at Cero Brujo
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus)
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus)
Heliconia
Choco Treefrog (Hypsiboas picturatus)
Witch Hill beach
Young sea lion
Nazca booby
Shoreline of Chinese Hat Island
Sharks in the Galapagos
Rainforest tower in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca booby with chick
Swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) with its chick
Local boys struggle with a fish in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Leaf
Nazca booby
Crater at Cero Brujo
Flowers
Nazca booby
Aerial view of frontier town, Coca, in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus)
Nazca booby with chick
Sea lion nursing its pup
Oil tower's gas flare seen through the trees in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-footed booby
Cloud forest
Turquoise water off Rabida Island
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Nazca booby egg
Cloud forest near Mindo
Nazca booby
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Bat hanging out on ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Black scorpion
Sunset in the Galapagos
Nazca booby with chick
River in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Flowers
Imbabura Treefrog (Hypsiboas picturatus)
Weevil in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Nazca booby with a chick
Sunset in the Galapagos
Sharks
Red-footed booby
Ants swam leaf in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Tortuga bay beach
South American common toad (rhinella margaritifer) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Vegetation around an ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sunset over Quito
Red sand beach on Rabida Island
Nazca booby with chick
Bromeliad
Hummingbird
Bellavista cloud forest
Flowers
Leaf
Bellavista cloud forest
Red-footed booby
Moray eel in the Galapagos
Nazca booby with chick
Nazca booby
Purple flower
Vampire bat in the shower in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Turquoise water off Rabida Island
Young sea lion
Wild female Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), which was raised by an indigenous tribe after her mother was hunted for food, periodically seeks out humans
Nazca boobies doing a display
Sunset over Quito
Sea lions
Pufferfish
Nazca boobies displaying
Nazca booby
Red sea cliffs of Rabida Island
Sea lions in the Galapagos
Sea lion
Swallow-tailed gulls mating
Eye of a black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) in an ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sea lion
Traditional meeting house of the Anangu Quichua community in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sunset in the Galapagos
Flowers
Tortuga bay beach
Purple flower
Hummingbird
Dragonfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bromeliad
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus)
Sharks
Sea lion
Ant in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca booby with a chick
Red-footed booby
Turquoise water off Rabida Island
Young sea lion
Sea lion at the Puerto Ayora fish market
Red-footed booby
Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-footed booby
Nazca booby with chick
Red-footed booby
Swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) with its chick
Sea lion nursing its pup
Signs against poaching in the frontier town of Coca in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Road off the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sharks
Young sea lion
Red sea beach on Rabida Island
Red sea beach on Rabida Island
Natural arch at Witch Hill
Pufferfish
Anis in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Hummingbird
Nazca booby with chick
Flowers
Turquoise water off Rabida Island
Hummingbird
Nazca booby with chick
Purple flower
Young sea lion
Nazca booby with a chick
Sea lion nursing its pup
Sally lightfoot crab
Hummingbird
Bellavista cloud forest
Cloud forest bromeliad
Model of a trap of the Anangu Quichua community in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Young sea lion
Sally Lightfoot Crabs
Heliconia
Sea lions in the Galapagos
Lizard in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca booby
Sharks
Penguins on Chinese Hat Island
Hummingbird
Hummingbird
Nazca booby
Bellavista cloud forest
Penguins on Chinese Hat Island
Huaorani guide skips ladder and climbs down tree (don't try this at home) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sea lion nursing its pup
Oxbow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ray and tuna
Red-footed booby
Imbabura Treefrog
Model of a trap of the Anangu Quichua community in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Masked trogon (Trogon personatus)
Young sea lion
Red-footed booby
Oil industry infrastructure in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Oropendola nest in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby with a broken wing
Nazca booby with chick
Sloth in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Yellow fungi
Nazca booby with chick
Yellow flower
Santiago Island
Nazca booby
Young sea lion
Young sea lion
Mongabay Latam team
Nazca booby
Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Wild female Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), which was raised by an indigenous tribe after her mother was hunted for food, periodically seeks out humans
Red-footed booby
Sunset in the Galapagos
Wild female Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), which was raised by an indigenous tribe after her mother was hunted for food, periodically seeks out humans
Nazca booby with chick
Flowers
Huaorani guide in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Young sea lion
Control post for Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-footed booby with a broken wing
Cloud forest bromeliad
Katydid at night in Yasuni National Park in th Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca booby
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Moray eel in the Galapagos
Juvenile South American common toad (Rhinella margaritifer) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ray
Road and settlement cut through rainforest along the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Natural arch at Witch Hill
Umbrella leaf
Natural arch in the Galapagos
Sea lions underwater
Camouflaged moth or butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Young sea lion
Red-throated frigatebird
Sea lions underwater
Young sea lion
Sparkling violetear hummingbird (Colibri coruscans) in Quito, Ecuador.
Leaves with red spots
Outskirts of frontier town, Coca, in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Red-orange tubular flower
Boat on the Napo River in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Cloud forest
Frog
Nazca booby with chick
Nazca booby with a chick
Pufferfish
Nazca booby with chick
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
Nazca boobies doing a display
Poison dart frog in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Aerial view of deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Bats hanging out on ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sea lions
Heliconia
Sea lion at the Puerto Ayora fish market
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Pair of manta rays
Golden-mantled tamarins (Saguinus tripartitus) raiding a banana garden in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Purple flowers
Cloud forest near Mindo
Nazca boobies displaying
Aerial view of Quito, Ecuador
Cobalt-winged parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) at a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ground termite nest in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Purple flower
Pair of manta rays
Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) and orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi) a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Nazca booby with chick
Red-footed booby
Red-footed booby
Pinnacle rock of BartolomŽ
Wild female Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), which was raised by an indigenous tribe after her mother was hunted for food, periodically seeks out humans
Purple-collared woodstar (Myrtis fanny)
Red-footed booby
Bellavista cloud forest
Nazca booby with chick
Mountains on San Cristobal
Orange flower tree