Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Lucas Bustamante / Choco Toucan (Ramphastos brevis) on a tree with epiphytes, Mashpi, Pichincha, Ecuador

Lucas Bustamante / Aerial view of cut tree trunks in deforested Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 25 tree species, many of them threatened, are involved.

Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Chien Lee / Mountains along lake with choco rainforest, Utria National Park, Colombia

Tui De Roy / Wolf-Volcano giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra becki) portrait with ground finch (Geospiza sp. ) sitting on foot, Isabela Island, Galapagos. Did you know? Galapagos tortoises have a mutualistic relati...

Michael & Patricia Fogden / White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Fairy Duster (Calliandra sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Portrait of an Emerald Glass Frog (Espadarana / Centrolenella prosoblepon). Captive. Choc Region of northwest Ecuador.

Petra Wegner / British Longhair Cat, kitten on scratching post, choco-tabby-white / Highlander, Lowlander, Britanica

Pete Oxford / Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii), Choco Forest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi tree frog {Hyla picturata} Choco forest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cloud Forest Tree Frog (Hyla pellucens) sitting on edge of leaf, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador