Ecuador's Top Court Backs Indigenous Groups in Mining and Drilling Suit
The ruling, which requires the government to seek consent for new projects, could put the brakes on the president’s plan to increase oil production.
Source: nytimes.com
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Top news stories of 2021
Highlights of coverage around the world on Indigenous issues in 2021
Source: indiancountrytoday.com
Oil, Ecotourism and Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities in Ecuador must choose to sell their land or fend off oil goliaths through small-scale industries like ecotourism.
Source: borgenmagazine.com
Ecuador's consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope
Before the pandemic, Ecuador’s Indigenous communities were on a roll, winning a series of lawsuits against the state for selling, or trying to sell, their land to oil and mining companies. In the Amazon, two of these trials were of particular importance: the Cofan trial in 2018 that led to 52 mining concessions being cancelled […]
Source: mongabay.com
Indigenous communities fighting deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous communities are fighting back, like the Waorani tribe defending 500,000 acres of forest from oil extraction and threats of sale by the government.
Source: channel4.com