Ecuador was the first country to enshrine the rights of nature in its c. On Nov. 16, voters decide if it should be re-written ...

SINANGOE/PUYO, Ecuador, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Marcelo Lucitante deftly climbs a tree and attaches a camera trap, camouflaged ...

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 ...

You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends at the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil. This 4,000-mile journey is fed by 17 major rivers ...

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

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 — 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 ...