Illegal mining is present in 21 of Ecuador's 24 provinces, Zapata said, but the plan announced on Monday targets key conflict zones in the Amazon region that are rich in biodiversity, ...

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), a species categorized as endangered on Ecuador’s red list, with fewer than 150 individuals in the country, remains at risk of mining contamination in ...

The Ecuador attorney general's office and Chilean state miner Codelco both claimed victory on Friday after an international ...

Grenades and land mines are frequently being found in Ecuador's northern provinces, stored there by Colombian guerrillas. Military-grade weaponry, including caches of grenades and landmines, continue ...

The tailings dam is part of one of Ecuador’s biggest mining projects, El Mirador, which holds an estimated 3.2 million metric tons of copper, 3.4 million ounces of gold and 27.1 million ounces ...

Ecuador's government on Tuesday appointed Antonio Goncalves as the country's new Minister of Energy and Mines, meaning he will take over from Transportation Minister Roberto Luque, who held the ...

Since the 1990s, communities of the Intag Valley of Ecuador have been leading a conservation campaign to protect the remaining cloud forests in this highly biodiverse region of the planet, the ...

QUITO, May 8 (Reuters) - Ecuador's government is deploying soldiers and police in nine provinces to combat illegal mining, officials said on Monday, in a bid to stamp out the unlawful mines mostly ...