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By Alexandra Valencia SINANGOE, Ecuador (Reuters) - Armed with spears, their faces painted, members of the A'i Cofan community's indigenous guard prepare to patrol the banks of the Aguarico River in Ecuador's Amazon, ready to confiscate equipment and call in the police if they find miners on their ancestral land. We go down (the river) and document all the people who have entered, guard coordinator Nixon Andy, 24, said. When we come across strangers on our territory we speak peacefully, but if there isn't respect there are authorities to whom we can report. The guard's work is backed by the Co...

SINANGOE, Ecuador (Reuters) - Armed with spears, their faces painted, members of the A'i Cofan community's indigenous guard prepare to patrol the banks of the Aguarico River in Ecuador's Amazon, ready to confiscate equipment and call in the police if they find miners on their ancestral land.

In Ecuador’s central Napo province, legal and illegal gold mining in rivers is expanding, causing freshwater contamination and conflict among communities living in the Anzu and Jatunyacu river basins, according to recent studies and Indigenous organizations. The findings, signaling a gold rush in the Amazonian province, identify several new mining concessions and their environmental impacts […]

QUITO, Ecuador — Indigenous communities across Ecuador celebrated over the weekend after a historic ruling by the country’s highest court declaring that Indigenous communities have more autonomy over their territory and a much stronger say over extractive projects affecting their lands. “This has been a very big news, very important for the community, for all of […]

By Patricia Armijo Sinangoe, Ecuador, Feb 8 (EFE).- A small indigenous community in Ecuador’s Amazon region that last week won a major court victory granting it authority to block extractive concessions now is trying to secure title to land it says has been plundered for decades. Sinangoe – located in the vast eastern province of …