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Nicolas Mainville

Monitoring Lead, Land Protectors As a biologist, Nicolas carried out his Graduate studies in Environmental Sciences in the tropics, looking at the impacts of deforestation and oil extraction on mercury contamination and the health of Indigenous communities in the Andean Amazon. For more than 15 years, Nicolas has been engaged in working with indigenous communities on territorial defense, health and environmental issues, both in Ecuador, Peru and Canada. From 2005 to 2016, Nicolas worked extensively in the Canadian Boreal Forest, helping Cree, Innu, Atikamekw and Algonquin Nations protect their lands. Bringing the expertise built in Canadian and International NGOs to his initial field of research in the Amazon, Nicolas joined Amazon Frontlines as Environmental Monitoring Program Coordinator in 2016 and lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon with his wife and three kids.

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/ August 31, 2022

Deforestation Inside Conservation Areas:
Ecuador’s Failure to Protect the Amazon

For the past two hours we have been driving from the frontier town of Lago…

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/ July 26, 2021

Indigenous 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…

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/ May 12, 2020

The Real Price of Oil in the Amazon:

On the 7th of April 2020, the Ecuadorian Amazon experienced its worst oil spill of…

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/ August 27, 2019

Mapping Living Memories:

I’ve been walking with my Kofan colleagues for three days, deep into intact Amazonian rainforest….

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/ June 7, 2019

From Big Oil to Palm Oil:

For decades, the Ecuadorian Amazon has been the epicenter of one of the most polluting…

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/ November 1, 2018

Stopping a gold rush in the Amazon:

Facing the mounting pressures of the global race for gold and other metals across the…

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/ October 24, 2018

An unprecedented legal victory for indigenous rights in Ecuador frees up huge swath of Amazonian rainforest from gold mining

On October 22nd 2018, the Kofan people of Sinangoe in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a…

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/ October 5, 2018

Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon:

When I started doing research on deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon back in 2001, it was almost…

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/ September 4, 2018

The Kofan people ramp up the fight to protect one of the most biodiverse forests in the Amazon

In January 2018 the Ecuadorian Government concessioned off over 30,000 hectares of some of the…

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/ August 13, 2018

Historic indigenous legal victory against gold mining in the Amazon

In a lawsuit that will inspire and galvanize many other indigenous communities across the Amazon…

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/ July 4, 2018

Hit & run from illegal miners:

The “fluorescent” orange water coming out of the ground and flowing towards the pristine headwaters…

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/ April 9, 2018

On the frontlines of a new gold rush in the Ecuadorian Amazon

It came out of nowhere. No letters, no meetings, no publicity or any attempt to…

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