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 ...

Toa Alvarado, left, and Ene Nenquimo walk near an oil pipeline that cuts through the rainforest in Sucumbios, Ecuador, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) Toa Alvarado, left, and Ene ...

Indigenous Cofan paraecologists in Ecuador’s Amazon are turning drones, camera traps, and scientific documentation into legal weapons against illegal gold mining operations that threaten their ...

Ecuadorans have voted to stop an oil drilling project in an Amazon reserve, according to the results Monday of a referendum hailed as a historic example of climate democracy. The "Yes" vote to halt ...

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 ...

NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador (AP) — Standing beside a stream stained dark with oil in Ecuador’s northern Amazon, an Indigenous woman shook her head in disbelief as she stared at the oily sheen drifting across ...