The Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the Amazon forest from deforestation, ...

SINANGOE/PUYO, Ecuador, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Marcelo Lucitante deftly climbs a tree and attaches a camera trap, camouflaged ...

Located on the western edge of South America between Columbia and Peru, Ecuador is the home to the Galapagos Islands. However, mainland Ecuador offers visitors a getaway steeped in biodiversity, rich ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Seven Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Amazon have denounced a government plan to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration, saying it threatens their ancestral lands ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature ...

Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

Seven indigenous communities in the Amazon have spoken out against a plan by the Ecuadorian government to open up oil and gas exploration at 49 blocks that could bring in a total of $47 billion, the ...

QUITO, Jan 31 – A burst pipeline in Ecuador caused an oil spill within a protected area of the country’s Amazon rainforest, the environment ministry said on Monday, adding that the pipeline operator ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Seven Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Amazon have denounced a government plan to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration, saying it threatens their ancestral lands and ...