In the Ecuadorian Amazon, uncontrolled illegal fishing with agrochemicals and explosives is causing long-lasting damage to aquatic ecosystems, while representing a real danger to human health, a ...

Despite court ruling, Ecuadorian government continues to allow dangerous flaring as it seeks to maintain oil production . Ecuadorian Amazon has become an ‘oil sacrifice zone’ with marginalised ...

Helena Gualinga, 20, hails from a remote Ecuadorian region of the Amazon – home of the Kichwa Sarayaku community who have been fighting for indigenous land rights for decades. She tells CNN ...

A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring authorities to stop drilling for. ... Ecuador, on August 27, ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ten people died Sunday when the truck they were traveling in on the Ecuadorian Amazon fell into a ravine, law enforcement authorities in the South American country said.

Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazon paddled kayaks through ...

Meet the ‘brave women’ who cultivate the riches of the Ecuadorian Amazon. More than 20 years ago, the Sinchi Warmi (‘brave woman’) Indigenous community created a lodge where they could ...

Ecuador's citizens voted to stop oil drilling in heart of Amazon. A year later, it hasn't happened Voters in Ecuador last year approved a referendum to keep some 700 million barrels of crude oil ...

I am a Waorani Indigenous woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. My life, my language, my culture and people and the territory that gives us life are all under threat. Illegal miners want to ...

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 ...

Amazonian Kichwas are a grouping of indigenous Kichwa peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon. An experiential learning space for a Kichwa community has been created in the village of Dahuano, next to the ...