When states define a place as a ‘protected area’, they usually do so excluding the Indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia, disregarding their knowledge and worldviews which are vital in the conservation of biodiverse jungles, forests, mangroves.
Camilo Huamoni, a leader of the Confeniae (Amazonian Indigenous Confederation of Ecuador), explains how the Ecuadorian state places restrictions on the lives of Indigenous peoples in ‘protected areas’, while simultaneously granting concessions on the same lands to extractive activities such as oil and ...
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