Ecuadorian Amazon Oil Slick Heads Towards Peru

Crude discharged after pipeline was ruptured by landslide has entered Napo river which flows across border

June 11, 2013 | The Guardian

An oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon is flowing downstream towards Peru and Brazil, heightening concerns about the impact of drilling in one of the world's last remaining wildernesses.More »

Ecuador Oil Spill Casts Shadow Over New Amazonian Drilling Plans

June 8, 2013 | Blog Post

An oil spill from Ecuador's Trans-Andean pipeline last weekend has reached Amazonian tributaries and is wreaking havoc on local communities and ecosystems downstream.More »

Oil Demand Threatens Ecuador's Rainforest

Up to 8 million acres of pristine Ecuadorian rainforest is under threat by a new plan to drill for oil. A local tribe vows to fight to protect their land.

May 3, 2013 | NBC Nightly News

The Wauroni tribes, who live in the forests of Ecuador, are getting ready to challenge the Ecuadorian government’s plan to sell as much as 8 million acres of rainforest for oil drilling, saying they are prepared to fight to the death to protect the land. More »

Is Chinese Big Oil Going to Destroy Ecuador's Amazon?

May 2, 2013 | VICE

To the world's oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species would probably argue it's a region that shouldn't be destroyed by rich people.More »

Ecuador Delays 11th Oil Round Deadline

April 22, 2013 | Blog Post

In a bit of an Earth Day reprieve, Ecuador has extended the deadline for companies to offer bids for the 16 oil blocks up for sale in the country's southeastern Amazon rainforests.More »

Idle No More Goes Up Against Ecuador's 11th Round

April 19, 2013 | Blog Post

Actress and aboriginal activist Michelle Thrush demanded to know why the Ecuadorian government is "auctioning off over three million hectares of indigenous land in the Amazon without the consent of the people who live there."More »

Indigenous Leaders meet in Puyo, Ecuador to Oppose the XI Oil Round

April 12, 2013 | Blog Post

"Our territories belong to our ancestors, they belong to our grandparents, first they will have to kill us to operate in our territory," explained delegates from the community of Amazanga.More »

Increasing Pressures on Yasuní Lead to More Violence in the Amazon

April 4, 2013 | Press Release

A group of indigenous Waorani warriors has allegedly carried out revenge killings against other indigenous people deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This latest spate follows the March 5th deaths of Ompore and Bogueney, an elderly Waorani couple killed by a group of Taromenane in the community of Yarentaro. It is yet unknown exactly how many Taromenane have been killed in the latest violence.More »

Peruvian Government Declares State of Environmental Emergency in Pastaza Region

March 27, 2013 | Alianza Arkana Blog | Blog Post

"We are still drinking contaminated water every day... We think that with the declaration of emergency the government will be forced to worry about us and can solve our problem sooner."More »

Peru Declares Environmental State of Emergency in Its Rainforest

Government reports high levels of barium, lead, chrome and petroleum-related compounds

March 26, 2013 | The Guardian

Lima, Peru – Peru has declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote part of its northern Amazon rainforest, home for decades to one of the country's biggest oil fields, currently operated by the Argentinian company Pluspetrol. Achuar and Kichwa indigenous people living in the Pastaza river basin near Peru's border with Ecuador have complained for decades about the pollution, while successive governments have failed to deal with it.More »