(4 Aug 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Pichincha, Ecuador - 16 August 2024 1. Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve ASSOCIATED PRESS Quito, Ecuador - 31 July 2025 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Natalia Greene, Environmental Defender of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: ++ZOOM INTERVIEW++ ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1, 3, 4, 5++ "The Government of Ecuador has proposed an immediate merger of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Energy Transition, (MAATE) with the Ministry of