Discover Ecuador's diverse landscapes with this stunning drone footage, capturing the lush Amazon rainforest, towering Andes ...

Loggers were killed last year after entering Mashco Piro territory in Peru's Amazon, with Indigenous leaders warning that ...

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 ...

Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha ...

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 ...

In August, I traveled by bus, small plane, and canoe to the sacred headwaters of the Amazon, in Ecuador. It's a place with very few roads, yet like many areas in the rainforest, foreign business ...

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 ...

On a muggy and overcast morning in October 2024, Rosa Aranda arrives in Piwiri, a community of which she is also president, and where her siblings and other family members live. Piwiri is situated in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ecuador’s plans to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration for more than $47 billion has prompted opposition from seven Indigenous peoples in the Amazon ...