(4 Aug 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Pichincha, Ecuador – 16 August 2024
1. Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve
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Quito, Ecuador – 31 July 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Natalia Greene, Environmental Defender of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature:
++ZOOM INTERVIEW++
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1, 3, 4, 5++
"The Government of Ecuador has proposed an immediate merger of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Energy Transition, (MAATE) with the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum. For us this is an aberration, it is a complete contradiction, it is putting the wolf in charge of the sheep. It makes no sense."
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Quito, Ecuador – 31 July 2025
3. People protesting against the merger of the Ministry of Energy and Mines with the Ministry of Environment
4. Posters on display, reading, (Spanish) "No to the merger of ministries," Noboa miner, life comes first"
5. Protest outside the Ministry of Environment
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Puyo, Ecuador – 31 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nemo Guiquita, Leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador:
++ZOOM INTERVIEW++
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7, 8++
"This is going to accelerate oil and mining exploitation in all Indigenous territories, and this puts us as Indigenous peoples on alert, because it means that our right to free, prior and informed consultation is not going to be respected. They are going to violate all of our rights in order to enter our territories and extract the resources they need."
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ARCHIVE: Esmeraldas, Ecuador – 15 March 2025
7. Various parts of the Viche River polluted by the oil spill
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ARCHIVE: Quito, Ecuador – 20 August 2024
8. Members of the Waorani Amazonian people mobilize in the streets of Quito to demand that the government comply with the popular consultation they won, which demands an end to oil extraction in the Yasuní National Park
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Puyo, Ecuador – 31 July 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nemo Guiquita, Leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador:
++ZOOM INTERVIEW++
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 10++
"Our only crime here has been to protect our territory, to protect our customs, to protect our way of life."
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ARCHIVE: Pichincha, Ecuador – 16 August 2024
10. Various of Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve
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ARCHIVE: Quito, Ecuador – 20 August 2024
11. Members of the Waorani Amazonian people mobilize in the streets of Quito to demand that the government comply with the popular consultation they won, which demands an end to oil extraction in the Yasuní National Park
STORYLINE:
When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
And it was in character for a country that was first to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution and is home to parts of the Amazon rain forest and the Galápagos Islands.
But recent moves by President Daniel Noboa have alarmed environmentalists and Indigenous leaders who say the country’s green reputation — and its protections for civil society — are unraveling.
Noboa’s administration has moved to scrap the country’s independent Environment Ministry. It’s pushing legislation ostensibly aimed at choking off illegal mining, but which critics fear will devastate nonprofits.
And Ecuador just signed a new oil deal with Peru that could accelerate drilling in sensitive areas.
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