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 ...

New data show oil and gas lease blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon, overlapping Indigenous territories and protected areas, raising environmental, health and seismic risk ...

Seven indigenous communities in the Amazon have spoken out against a plan by the Ecuadorian government to open up oil and gas exploration at 49 blocks that could bring in a total of $47 billion, the ...

Ecuador's oil industry is in crisis due to corruption, dwindling investment, and corroded infrastructure, leading to frequent and environmentally damaging oil spills. The Trans-Ecuadorian System Oil ...