A beetle stands on a leaf on the family farm of Ramon Pucha, which he has turned into a conservation site to preserve native ...

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 ...

QUITO (AP) — El gobierno de Ecuador suspendió el lunes las actividades mineras en tres zonas de la Amazonía y sur del país tras determinar graves afectaciones al ambiente producto de la minería ilegal ...

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 ...

New data show oil and gas lease blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon, overlapping Indigenous territories ...

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 ...

FILE - Waorani Indigenous women take part in a demonstration in Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 20, 2024, demanding authorities comply with the decision to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of ...