Ecuador pledged not to exploit the oil in the east of the park, which holds some 20% of the country's total reserves, in exchange for $3.6bn (£2.3bn) from national and international donors.

Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael ...

Since 2018, Ecuador's top court has ruled in favour of the Cofan and another indigenous group - the Waorani living in the eastern Amazon province of Pastaza - as they seek to block development ...