An Aug. 5 Associated Press article reported Ecuadoran environmentalists are worrying that the president of Ecuador has opened the rain forests to ...

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are urging South American presidents to turn promises to the protect the region's ...

The inhabitants of the "Lost City of the Amazon" in Ecuador's Upano River Valley grew corn and planted alder trees for over 1 ...

Amazonia Açu will feature artworks by 34 artists and collectives that highlight the different identities, histories, and ...

He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug ...

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.

Spinepeira erwini, a new rare species of orb-weaver spider, was discovered in Ecuador’s Tiputini Biodiversity Station using the canopy knockdown method.

In Ecuador, a 2023 court decision that recognizes one Indigenous community’s rights to own part of a protected area in the Amazon has escalated a long-simmering conflict with another Indigenous ...

Fito’s disappearance prompted a year and a half-long search for the leader, with many theorizing he had taken refuge outside the country or in Ecuador’s hard-to-reach mountainous and Amazon zones.

Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazon paddled kayaks through choppy waters, calling attention to the oil expansion threatening their ...

The preservation push in Ecuador comes as another South American country that includes part of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, is moving ahead with plans to further develop oil resources.