"The Forest is a Living, Conscious Being": As green capitalists rush to cash in on false climate solutions, an Indigenous community in Ecuador pushes back with a groundbreaking model for protecting the Amazon.

The government had granted an oil exploration concession overlapping Sarayaku lands to the Argentine fuel company CGC in 1996, spurring a wave of violence. In the early 2000s, Kichwa de Sarayaku, an Indigenous nation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, clashed with oil workers and state forces as the community resisted a militarized effort to expand the petroleum frontier in their territories without their consent. b B PG: b States, first of all, should not discuss forests like those of the Sarayaku nation without the presence of the peoples who have been here since before conquest and colonization. [Extracted from the article]

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