Men and women of the Kofan, Waorani, Siona, and Siekopai nations, founders of the Ceibo Alliance, several of whom are still working in the organization today.

Mitch Anderson and Nemonte Nenquimo in one of the many assemblies held in the Waorani Territory of Pastaza, discussing and analyzing paths that could confront the oil pressure in this region.

From left to right: Opi Nenquimo - brother of Nemonte - Waorani leader and driver of the Wao Resistance process; Silvana Nihua, President of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza and plaintiff in the lawsuit against the State; Nemonte; Wiña and Omanka, wise elders and leaders of their people (known as Pikenani);Sara, Waorani leader. This image was captured during one of the marches to the Court in the city of Puyo.

Nemonte dances with other Waorani community members in front of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador to exert pressure on the Waorani case.

In February 2020, representatives of different peoples and nationalities of Ecuador gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to demand their rights and stop the advance of oil and mining in the Amazon.

Nemonte and a family member perform steam baths on a baby with medicinal plants used by the Waorani during the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the Covid pandemic, Mitch and Nemonte visited several communities in search of knowledge and plants that they could share with the families of the Waorani nation in the Pastaza Basin.

Women who are leaders in their communities participate in the elections of the Governing Council of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza through which Silvana Nihua was elected as president, suceedingNemonte.

Nemonte holds dead butterflies in her hands, the result of the highly-polluting combustion of gas flares in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.

Emergildo Criollo, founder of the Ceibo Alliance takes with his hands a sample of oil from the hundreds of spills that still continue in the Northern Amazon of Ecuador where thousands of families live.

Leaders of various Indigenous nations visit Yasuní in July 2023 prior to the Yes to Yasuní campaign.

Alexandra Narváez and Nemonte during a march in front of the Constitutional Court, demanding compliance with rulings to protect the rights of Kofan and Waorani communities in their territories.

Tiri, father of Nemonte, with his macaw in the Nemopare community in Waorani territory.

Nemonte Nenquimo, Jenny Paushi (Nemonte's cousin) and Opi Nenquimo sharing stories from their trip.

Nemonte traveling by canoe down the Curaray River to her community

Gilberto Nenquimo, former president of the Waorani nation, together with Nemonte communicating with communities across the Waorani Territory during the COVID emergency to provide medical assistance.

In one of the main squares of the city of Puyo, Ecuador, Waorani women celebrate in the rain the Court's ruling in favor of the protection of their territory. On the right, Mitch Anderson takes an iconic photo of this process.

In the Waorani community of Yawepare, during their first years of work Mitch Anderson helps install one of the hundreds of water systems that were delivered to families of the Waorani, Kofan, Siona, and Siekopai nations. Ensuring access to clean water in the communities was one of the main axes of work of the Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines during its first years of work in the Amazon.

Community mapping in Waorani territory was an important process of collective reflection, understanding, and territorial awareness, conducted in order to then present a stronger communal demand to the Ecuadorian State. Men and women from different communities traveled through their territory assembling rich information that was processed and analyzed from many points of view. Handmade maps and conceptual maps were elaborated with GIS systems to identify sites of cultural and social heritage, water sources, animal routes, and threats, among other elements.

Life in the territory also means participation in community activities, assemblies, mingas (encounters for cooperative work), festivals, etc. Mitch Anderson participated in the elections of the Governing Council of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza.

Another key area of focus for Amazon Frontlines and Alianza Ceibo's work to this day is culture, the recovery and strengthening of traditional Amazonian medicine and the spirituality that is embedded in communities own practices. In this image, healers of the Kofan nation share a healing space with Mitch Anderson and members of the Ceibo Alliance.