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 ...

Ecuador is pushing to increase its production of crude oil but faces a backlash from environmentalists and Indigenous groups.

AMAZONIA, Ecuador — Indigenous communities in the Amazonian rainforest believe nature has a spirit. Trees, flowers and plants have as much importance as human lives in Ecuador’s rainforest, possibly ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. More than 30% of Ecuador’s total area today has been impacted by human activity, with much of that loss coming at the expense of the Amazon ...

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 ...

In a secluded part of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, river transport is far more common than road travel. Here, boats glide along the Wichimi River, a wide channel that snakes through the dense foliage, ...

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When 11-year-old Ecuadorean Leonela Moncayo sees the flames from a gas flare flickering above the jungle canopy near her home in the Amazon ...

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 the water and broken pipes ...