In its annual report, Global Witness affirms how dangerous it is to defend nature. More than 2,100 defenders have been ...

Campaigners have faced violence and repression trying to stop wildcat gold mining in Ecuador, illegal shrimp farming in ...

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

After co-founding the Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontline, Nemonte and her partner, Mitch Anderson, have won a landmark case ...

Almost 200 environmental activists were murdered last year, with the toll especially heavy in South America, according to ...

A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring ...

The basic unit of territorial organisation in the northern Andes is known in Kichwa (a variation of Quechua) as llakta.

Ecuadorians voted to shield part of the Amazon from oil drilling. How the decision will be implemented is still to be ...

The Ecuadorian government has initiated the closure of a significant block of oil wells following a referendum on pumping oil ...

On Sunday evening, people celebrated "El Grito de Dolores" -- the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence ...

The 53rd International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador, started Sept. 8, focusing on unity and healing through ...