Voters were asked whether to ban mining in the highlands and further oil drilling in Yasuni National Park in the Amazon. With over 90% of the ballots counted, some six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected ...

Yasuni National Park, part of the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, is probably the most biodiverse place on the planet. Home to many unique and endemic species, the national park, almost 1 million hectares ...

The study also detected cultural transformations in Indigenous communities as a result of the extractions. The latest study ...

When it comes to planning an Amazon River cruise, you'll need to consider more than your budget, including where to go and ...

Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. one of the most biodiverse places on the planet That's where photographer Javier Aznar Gonzalez ...

Yet nothing in the Ecuadorian Amazon has changed. Petroecuador is still extracting around 60,000 barrels of oil a day from Yasuní national park. The Indigenous communities who live there are ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic ... this abundance. The park sits at the intersection of the Andes, the Equator, and the Amazon region, an ecological bull ...

LETICIA, Colombia (AP) — Marciano Flores stood knee-deep in the Amazon River with the rest of his crew, ready to haul in a ...

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Research by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) reveals an unbalanced distribution of the impacts generated by the ...