"In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas", 24 October 2022

...[M]ap out all the active oil fields in these four countries, and it’s striking how much overlap there is with native communities, Indigenous reserves and lands of peoples living in voluntary isolation...

To better understand this problem, the journalistic alliance ManchadosXelPetróleo, with information gathered by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG), conducted a geospatial analysis in the Amazonian region of these four countries to analyze the magnitude of this overlap and how it affects Indigenous lands and protected areas...

In Colombia, 106 indigenous reserves are affected by the presence of oil blocks, most of them in the departments of Caquetá, Vichada and Putumayo. At least 84 of these reserves have been subsumed entirely within oil blocks.

...[I]n the Peruvian Amazon, where at least 474 oil spills were recorded between 2000 and 2019...1,001 Indigenous communities have been affected by the presence of oil lots, of which 769 have a 100% overlap. Three reserves for Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, two of which are still in the process of being declared, have also been affected...

In Ecuador, the scale of the overlap is even more extensive, given the country’s smaller size. The analysis shows that out of 643 Indigenous communities located in the country’s Amazonian region, 480 have oil blocks in their territories; of these, 402 have a 100% overlap...

In Bolivia, the analysis found overlaps between oil blocks and 57 Indigenous peoples’ territories...

...23 protected areas in Ecuador are overlapped by oil blocks, among them the emblematic Yasuní National Park...

Affected protected areas include protected forests, national parks, biological reserves, wildlife production reserves, and ecological reserves...

In Peru, eight protected natural areas are overlapped by oil blocks...

In Colombia, while no oil blocks overlap with protected areas, the analysis detected a pattern that calls for attention: there are oil blocks in 70 forest reserves...