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This UN day, we look at five ways countries are working together to help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

A group of Indigenous communities in Ecuador is taking legal action to regain control of territory in a wildlife reserve they say the government recognized a long time ago but never properly delivered to them. Siekopai communities, which occupy territory in the Western Amazon along the Ecuador-Peru border, have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry […]

Instead of maintaining the status quo, a just transition away from fossil fuels should instead seek to provide “restorative justice”...

National protests overwhelmed Ecuador in June, with Indigenous groups mobilizing in nearly every province of the country and President Guillermo Lasso announcing a state of emergency that restricted travel and allowed law enforcement to use aggressive force. The protests were in response to a variety of grievances — gas prices, healthcare, education — but they […]

“We receive reports of murders, crimes and threats every day,” says Esneda Saavedra, counselor for the rights of Indigenous peoples, human rights and peace with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). She says the victims are now young people and that there’s no guarantee of the cases being solved. “The reports arrive and are […]

ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the efforts of Indigenous communities to mining and oil development at bay from their lands...

Amazon indigenous groups threatened by mining and oil drilling in their forests are taking advantage of court rulings giving them more power over their land

Alexandra Narváez and Alex Lucitante, two young Indigenous leaders from the A’i Cofán community of Sinangoe, located in the Ecuadoran Amazon, have been awarded the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize for their fight against gold mining on their territory. This marks the second time that this internationally renowned prize has been awarded to Ecuadoran Indigenous leaders. In […]

For more than a decade, Canadian oil company Gran Tierra Energy has been attempting to boost its presence in Colombia’s Putumayo department, where it operates its La Cabaña exploratory drilling area, or APE–La Cabaña, in Villagarzón municipality. Along the way, however, its ambitions have brushed up against at least seven Indigenous reserves that are home […]

This article is republished courtesy of Latin American Bureau, the original article can be found here. It is the latest post in LAB’s London Mining Network blog, a partnership initiative between LAB and LMN. It contains a roundup of Latin America-related content from London Mining Network’s February 2022 newsletter, with additional material supplied by LAB,... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/ecuador/ecuador-intag-stands-up-to-mining-65688...