Rights/ August 31, 2022Deforestation Inside Conservation Areas: Ecuador’s Failure to Protect the AmazonFor the past two hours we have been driving from the frontier town of Lago…Read more Amazon Frontlines
Chronicles/ July 26, 2021Indigenous Nation from the Ecuadorian Amazon evicts illegal settlers from its ancestral territory“Look at those fresh boot tracks… these are not from one of us,” says a…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ May 12, 2020The Real Price of Oil in the Amazon:On the 7th of April 2020, the Ecuadorian Amazon experienced its worst oil spill of…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ August 27, 2019Mapping Living Memories:I’ve been walking with my Kofan colleagues for three days, deep into intact Amazonian rainforest….Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ June 7, 2019From Big Oil to Palm Oil:For decades, the Ecuadorian Amazon has been the epicenter of one of the most polluting…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ November 1, 2018Stopping a gold rush in the Amazon:Facing the mounting pressures of the global race for gold and other metals across the…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ October 24, 2018An unprecedented legal victory for indigenous rights in Ecuador frees up huge swath of Amazonian rainforest from gold miningOn October 22nd 2018, the Kofan people of Sinangoe in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ October 5, 2018Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon:When I started doing research on deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon back in 2001, it was almost…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ September 4, 2018The Kofan people ramp up the fight to protect one of the most biodiverse forests in the AmazonIn January 2018 the Ecuadorian Government concessioned off over 30,000 hectares of some of the…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ August 13, 2018Historic indigenous legal victory against gold mining in the AmazonIn a lawsuit that will inspire and galvanize many other indigenous communities across the Amazon…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ July 4, 2018Hit & run from illegal miners:The “fluorescent” orange water coming out of the ground and flowing towards the pristine headwaters…Read more Nicolas Mainville
Chronicles/ April 9, 2018On the frontlines of a new gold rush in the Ecuadorian AmazonIt came out of nowhere. No letters, no meetings, no publicity or any attempt to…Read more Nicolas Mainville
