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‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping (The Guardian)

QUITO, ECUADOR – Raul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rainforest in north-east Ecuador for more than 20 years. It has not been easy, he says, recalling the threats he has received over the years for reporting illegal hunters and loggers in reserves, but he never considered giving up.ContinueContinue reading “‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping (The Guardian)”

‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence (The Guardian)

QUITO, ECUADOR – In a small corner of Ecuador’s Yasuní national park is the village of Llanchama. This Indigenous Quichua community is carved out of the dense Amazonian rainforest along the Tiputini River. But for nearly 10 years an entirely different development has been attempting to establish itself on the village’s borders: the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT)ContinueContinue reading “‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence (The Guardian)”