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Foreign Extractive Companies Invade Indigenous Territories in Ecuador’s Amazon Region
Ecuador is located in South America and has a territorial extension of 159,300 square miles, distributed in four regions: the coast, the highlands, the Amazon, and the Galapagos. It is considered one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity, a place full of richness in flora and fauna, a mega diverse region. However, in the…
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Aymara Communities in Puno File Lawsuit Against 7 Mining Concessions
The Aymara peasant communities of the Kelluyo district, in the province of Chucuito, Puno region, filed an injunction against the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), the Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET) and a foreign investment mining company for the imposition of seven mining concessions located in their territories. This legal action is an…
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Jichi, the Water Keeper
A mysterious being manifests itself usually as a large snake. The basin of the Guapomó dam or reservoir is located within the Chiquitano Dry Forest of the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Its waters flow into the San Ignacio de Velasco dam, which covers an area of 300 square kilometers. Its ecosystem is under the…
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Earth Homes: A Dignified Way of Living on Mother Earth
When he died, his house was abandoned, it fell apart little by little from the rain and the sun, the plants climbed through the windows and the earth with which it was built was reintegrated to its source. In the rural territories of Mexico, the act of building homes with earth is so ancestral that…
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Stirring Announcement of the El Algarrobo Project Rekindles Tambogrande’s Historic Struggle Against Mining
Following the declaration of national interest of the El Algarrobo polymetallic mining project, located in Tambogrande, Piura region, grassroots social organizations established a transitory commission to collectively respond to this provocation made by the Agencia de Promoción de la Inversión Privada (ProInversión) and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem). In 2002, the district of…
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What Is an Imaginary State Called Kailasa Doing in Ecuador, and Why Is It Interested in the Indigenous Territories of the Ecuadorian Amazon?
What Are the United States of Kailasa? The self-proclaimed Hindu religious leader Nithyananda Paramashivam claims to be the founder in 2019 of the United States of Kailasa. Kailasa is said to be located in Latin America, on an island near the Galapagos archipelago in Ecuador, according to a report by the BBC. Vistazo magazine in…
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Community-based Conservation: The Experience of the Zanja Arajuno Center in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Wildlife trafficking is considered to be the fourth most lucrative crime among illegal businesses and confronting it requires joint actions from multiple actors, including centers dedicated to the care and protection of species where community participation plays an important role. This is the case of the Zanja Arajuno Ecological Center in the high rainforest of…
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Women Defend the Ancestral Art of Ceramics in Santa Cruz Chinautla, Guatemala
High above in the Guatemalan mountains, among its majestic lakes and rivers that nourish the earth like living veins, there is a land that safeguards the millenary memory of ancient populations. The Poqomam people, and their territory, have lived and survived there through their art, through clay, which is an essential resource for the creation…