This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant. YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — ...

It’s an area in the Amazon home to 600,000 people ... sits many kilometers further north, in Ecuador, where Nampikchai is from. “The river gives you wisdom, it has its spirit.

Ecuador announced Tuesday that it had converted part of its $1.5 billion of external debt into protection for the Amazon rainforest, the second so-called debt-for-nature swap in the South American ...

To take an Amazon River cruise from Ecuador, you will need to fly to the even smaller town of Coca, where small cruise ships ...

LONDON, Dec 17 (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 ...

The Government of Ecuador has declared a situation of force majeure for the country's oil sector due to the effects of erosion in the Coca River, one of the tributaries of the Amazon basin.

Seven South American countries have agreed measures to protect the Amazon river basin ... Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname signed a pact, setting up a disaster ...