Ecuador

Sometime in early January 2005, a photograph of a lone man standing on a beach aiming a bow and arrow toward a camera, made...

Noboa’s government must now prosecute a war on drugs without additional powers ‘The government tried to manipulate the Ecuadorian people by claiming that the presence...

In March 2025, the rivers of Esmeraldas, an Ecuadorian province that for decades has suffered from the social and environmental impacts of the petrochemical industry, were heavily polluted by a 25,000-barrel crude oil spill. Afro-descendant communities, environmental defenders organized in solidarity networks, and local universities continue agitating the murky waters of a disaster the country would prefer had sunk into oblivion.

In the lead-up to the COP30 Climate Summit, which will take place in Belém, Brazil, 10-21 November 2025, LAB joined forces with the NGO...

In the run-up to Ecuador’s presidential elections on 13 April 2025, the two leading candidates, Daniel Noboa of the Acción Democrática Nacional (AND), and...

What do deep divisions within Pachakutik, Correísmo’s troubled history with the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and of Nature, and the ongoing demonization of Fernando...

A year on from the referendum in which Ecuador voted to stop oil extraction in Block 43 of Yasuní National Park, oil drilling continues. In response, the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador organised a summit to create a roadmap towards a future free from fossil fuels in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Communities of the Intag Valley are engaging in new tactics, using citizen science to resist mining through legal battles. A pioneering organisation, Ecoforensic, is training a growing movement of ‘paraecologists’ to gather the ecological data needed to win legal cases against mining companies – and it’s working.

Roads are the main threat to the Amazon, argues Ecuadorean Indigenous leader José Gualinga. They are the trojan horse concealing miners, loggers, land-grabbers, behind the false promise of 'development'.

Kanua, the Amazonian Floating Film Festival, brought cinema to remote communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon on a solar-powered canoe.