By Shanna Hanbury Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador’s Amazon have condemned an international arbitration ruling ...

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 ...

A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation ...

Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades.

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 ...

The people of Ecuador are heading to the polls – but they’re voting for more than just a new president. For the first time in history, the people will decide the fate of oil extraction in the ...

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 ...