If any place in the world can be described as the global epicentre of biodiversity, is it the village where I am writing this Photography News for you? I’m sitting on a covered terrace in Mindo, Ecuador, rain drumming on the tin roof above me, sipping jugo de Guanábana and sorting through photos from the coast from where I arrived yesterday. I came across one of a Black Vulture eating a dead moray eel that had been washed up by the sea. Like him, I’ll try to pick out the best bits for this week’s news.