Ecuador Indigenous demand rulings against extractive industries be enforced
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Two Indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon region on Tuesday demanded the Constitutional Court enforce rulings from 2018 and 2019 to protect thousands of hectares of tropical jungle from oil and mining projects. Local courts in Ecuador ruled separately in favour of the A’i Cofan community of Sinangoe, in the country’s Sucumbios province, […]
The Long Read: In Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous forest defence gains legal ground
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the efforts of Indigenous communities to mining and oil development at bay from their lands…