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Ecuador

Environmental Defenders Remain Among World’s Most Targeted Activists

A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces.

By Katie Surma

 People rally against a Canadian mining project at the Quimsacocha moorlands in Cuenca, Ecuador, on Sept. 16, 2025. Credit: Galo Paguay/AFP via Getty Images
People carry their belongings as they evacuate due to flooding in Yaguachi, Ecuador, on Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount

By Bob Berwyn
On March 20, a team of scientists from The Leatherback Project and Fundación Reina Laúd deployed the first satellite tag on an endangered leatherback sea turtle in Ecuador. Credit: Nikki Riddy (Photos taken with red light only under research permits from the Ministry of the Environment)

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

By Teresa Tomassoni
Paraecologists Olger Kitiar (left) and Jhostin Antún eagerly check a camera trap tucked into the forest on Maikiuants territory on Nov. 29, 2025.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

Story and photos by Katie Surma
Waorani Indigenous leaders protest oil exploitation in Yasuni National Park in front of Quito’s Constitutional Court on Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma
A Jambato harlequin toad is seen at the Jambatu Center for Amphibian Research and Conservation in San Rafael, Ecuado. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins

By Katie Surma
An Ecuadorian squirrel monkey in the trees of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Countries Want Debt Relief for Conservation. Is China Ready to Play a Role?

By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin
Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco, walks toward a gas flare in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million

By Katie Surma
Ecuadoreans gather at a polling center in Manglaralto on Sunday to vote on a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to overhaul Ecuador’s constitution. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution

By Katie Surma
An emerald glass frog sits on a leaf in Ecuador’s Mindo cloud forest. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma
José Gualinga, a leader of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, speaks at an Indigenous council event in New York City on Sept. 22. Credit: Courtesy of GARN

How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World

By Katie Surma
People attend the funeral of Efraín Fueres. Fueres, 46, was gunned down last month in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where he was marching in protest of high costs of living and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. Credit: La Raíz

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters

By Katie Surma
Members of CONAIE observe a moment of silence honoring Efraín Fueres on Monday in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Ecuador as Government Cracks Down on Environmental and Human Rights Activists

By Katie Surma
Members of the Afro-descendant community in mangrove roots in Colombia. Credit: Conservation International

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says

By Katie Surma
Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community's territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma
Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via pre recorded video on Aug. 23, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry

By Katie Surma
Fish and sharks swim around North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands on March 8, 2024. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights

By Katie Surma

Behind the Scenes: Using Direct Democracy to Keep Oil in the Ground Is More Complex Than it Seems

By Kiley Price
People attend the burial of 14-year-old Colombian environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on Jan. 14, 2022 in the indigenous community of Las Delicias in Colombia’s Cauca Department. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023

By Katie Surma

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