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 ...

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 ...

Located on the western edge of South America between Columbia and Peru, Ecuador is the home to the Galapagos Islands. However, mainland Ecuador offers visitors a getaway steeped in biodiversity, rich ...

TUNDAYME, Ecuador (Reuters) - El proyecto cuprífero Mirador en Ecuador comenzó el jueves la explotación de su mina a cielo abierto con una proyección de producción de cerca de 94.000 toneladas anuales ...

(New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...

RICHMOND, Calif. — An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond, Calif., on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest ...

ZURICH/LONDRES, 25 ene (Reuters) - Credit Suisse, el prestamista holandés ING y el francés BNP Paribas han decidido detener su financiamiento a las operaciones de petróleo en Ecuador, dijeron el lunes ...

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 ...