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A group of individuals dragged a dolphin ashore at Crucita beach in Manabí during Carnival and gutted it in front of dozens of tourists and a police officer. Ecuador’s Environment Minister has ordered a criminal investigation under wildlife protection laws that carry up to three years in prison.
A joint investigation by the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine — a rare neurotoxin produced by a poison dart frog native to Ecuador's southwestern Andes.
