About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities traveled to Ecuador’s northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction, part of a workshop aimed ...

As the country moves to intensify mining and oil operations, environmental and Indigenous leaders’ bank accounts are being frozen or closed. Such “debanking” cuts them off from financial support and ...

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 ...

This is Part 1 of a series of articles on Indigenous land rights in Ecuador. Part 2 will be published tomorrow. In Ecuador, a 2023 court decision that recognizes one Indigenous community’s rights to ...

By Maxwell Radwin Ecuador has announced the creation of a new biological corridor designed to connect the eastern ranges of the Andes with the Amazon Rainforest, part of a larger initiative to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — It’s been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country’s share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start ...