Pete Oxford / Polylepis forest in valley surrounded by Frailejones, Polylepis incana & Espeletia pycnophylla (Severely Depleted habitat in Andes). El Angel Ecological Res. Paramo habitat, Carchi Province, Northern...

Pete Oxford / Indian herding Alpaca herd {Lama pacos} base of Cotopaxi Volcano, Andes, Ecuador.2005

Pete Oxford / Frailejones {Espeletia pycnophylla} Paramo, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Spectacled bear {Tremarctos ornatus} Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Frailejones (Espeletia) and tourist. {Espeletia pycnophylla} tall plants {Espeletia sp.} short plants). El Angel Ecological Reserve, 3700 m above sea level. Paramo habitat. Andes, NE Ecuador. Plants e...

Pete Oxford / Squirrel monkey {Saimiri sciureus} investigates camera. Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Puya flowers {Puya clava-hercules} Andes, Ecuador, Cayambe-Coca Reserve

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog guarding its eggs {Epipedobates tricolor} Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cotopaxi Volcano (5897 meters) and herd of Alpacas (Lama pacos), Highest active volcano in the world, surrounded by Paramo Habitat, Cotopaxi National Park, Andes, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Owl-eye Butterfly (Calligo eurilochus) shortly after emergence from coccoon. Forests of Napo River, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Alpaca herd {Lama pacos} base of Cotopaxi, Andes, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Rainforest beetle on leaf, Amazon Ecuador

MORLEY READ / Laying pipeline for oil extraction in rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Alpacas {Lama pacos} Andes. Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / South American puma {Felis concolor} occurs Andes & Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Podocarpus National Park, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Salasacan indian with Tungurahua volcano smoking in background, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian man dying hair with Achiote seeds, Ecuador, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian holding Achiote seeds for decoration of hair, Ecuador, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados

Pete Oxford / Colorado or Tsáchila Indian Shaman performs a cleansing ceremony by spraying a concoction of alcohol and medicinal herbs over his 'patient'.Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Coastal ECUADOR. South Amer...

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian women bathing, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cofan Indian portrait in traditional dress, Rio Agua Rico, Ecuadorian Amazon, South America

Pete Oxford / Cofan indian man with pet parrot shopping in Dureno community supermarket, Lago Agrio, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cofan Indian with feather through nose blowing coals to light fire, Ecuador, Dureno

Pete Oxford / Cofan Indian, traditional dress with parrot feathers + peccary teeth. Ecuador, Dureno

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian woman with balsa ear plugs, in Quito for a protest march against Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company who wanted to build another access road into Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, July 200...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian men with spears in Quito for a protest march against Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company who wanted to build another access road into Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, July 2005

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indians in Quito for a protest march against Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company who wanted to build another access road into Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, July 2005

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian man on his mobile phone, Moi Enomenga, leader of the Quehueire Ono community and an influencial Huaorani leader, in Quito for a protest march against Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company...

Pete Oxford / White fronted capuchin monkey {Cebus albifrons} in rainforest, Amazonia, Ecuador

MORLEY READ / Pygmy anteater, defense posture {Cyclopes didactylus} Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Ocelot (Felis / Leopardus pardalis) Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador captive

Pete Oxford / Blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) captive, Amazon Rain Forest. Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Male Wire tailed manakin displaying {(Teleonema filicauda) Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Pale-mandibled Aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius). Rainforest canopy, Napo River, Amazonia, Ecuador.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Booted Racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) male flying, feeding from flower, Mindo, Ecuador, Andes, South America, January

Rolf Nussbaumer / Brown Inca hummingbird (Coeligena wilsoni) adult feeding from Heliconia flower, Mindo, Ecuador, Andes, South America, January

Rolf Nussbaumer / Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii), Green-Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi) and Brown Inca (Coeligena wilsoni) adults feeding on Ginger flower, Mindo, Ecuador, Andes, South America, Februar...

Rolf Nussbaumer / Andean Emerald (Amazilia franciae) adult feeding from ginger flower during rain fall, Mindo, Ecuador, Andes, South America, January

Phil Savoie / Chachi tree frog on leaf (Hyla picturata) Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Treefrog on undesrtorey palm frond, River Napo Amazon Basin, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Two Leaf-frogs on branch {Agalychnis craspedopus} Amazon rainforest, Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Glass frog {Hyalinobatrachium sp} Amazonia, SE Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog {Dendrobates histrionicus} Western Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maroon eyed leaf frogs {Agalychnis litodryas} Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Leaf frog walking across leaves {Agalychnis calcarifer} Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Emerald tree boa coiled round branch {Corallus canina} Amazon rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Two striped forest pit viper with young {Bothriopis bilineatus} Ecuador Amazon, South America

Doug Wechsler / Short nosed vine snake threat display {Oxybelis brevirostris} Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Eyelash palm pitviper (Bothrops / Bothriechis schlegelii) silhouetted behind palm leaf. Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Therapeutic mud mask from sulphur lake, Machalilla NP, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Boy with therapeutic mud mask swimming in sulphur lake, Machalilla NP, Ecuador 2004

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian beside river, rainforest tribe, Napo Province, Ecuador. Weca

Pete Oxford / Quechua indian, Añangu Community, Yasuni NP, Napo River, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian woman with extended ear lobe, rainforest tribe, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian back of head with extended ear lobes, Napo Province, Ecuador. Tepa boy

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian man with blow gun, indigenous rainforest tribe, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indian man, indigenous rainforest tribe, Napo Province, Ecuador. Pirahua

Pete Oxford / Watermelons {Citrullus lanatus} for sale, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Market fruit stall, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuado

Pete Oxford / Salasaca indian dancers at Corpus Christi Festival, Salasaca, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Masks for New Year celebrations, Quito, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Imperial moth (Eacles sp) camouflaged in leaf litter, Mindo Cloud forest. Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Malachite Butterfly (Siproeta stelenes) forest near Napo River, Amazonia, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / White toed tarantula {Avicularia metallica} seen through leaf, Ecuador, Amazonia

Pete Oxford / Jungle spider on leaf, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree. Yasuni NP, Ecuador, Central America

Nick Garbutt / Tourist approaching White toed tarantula {Avicularia metallica} on handrail, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Katydid in threat display {Tettigonoidae} Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bush cricket (Copiphora). Yasuni NP, Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Narrow winged katydid (Tettigonidae) moulting, Yasuni NP, Ecuador, sequence 4/4

Pete Oxford / San Rafael / Coca Falls, Quijos river, Amazonia, Ecuador

Doug Wechsler / Sub tropical montane forest at 1,500m. Western. Andes, Ecuador

Doug Wechsler / Fungi on log in rainforest understory. Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Restaurant with view over the lake at the Napo Wildlife Centre Lodge, Añangu Lake, Yasuni National Park, Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Napo Wildlife Centre Lodge, Añangu Lake, Yasuni National Park, Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Tourists in canoe at Napo Wildlife Centre Lodge, Añangu Lake, Yasuni National Park, Amazonia, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Tourists birdwatching from canopy tree tower. Rainforest of Napo River, Amazonia, Ecuador, 2007

Pete Oxford / Collared Inca adult feeding chicks {Coeligena torquata fulgidigula} Mindo Cloud Forest, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Collared Inca adult feeding chicks {Coeligena torquata fulgidigula} Mindo Cloud Forest, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Andean Cock-of-the-Rock male at lek {Rupicola peruvianus} Manu cloud Forest, Peru, South America

Pete Oxford / Military macaw (Ara militaris) Captive, from Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, Endangered