We analyze the worrying pace of oil decommissioning in the Yasuní region, where only 10 of 247 wells have been closed since the 2023 Popular Consultation, while the government signs new drilling contracts that threaten the territories of the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples in voluntary isolation, in contradiction to the popular mandate and the recent landmark ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Interview with Eduardo Góes Neves, archaeologist and professor at the University of São Paulo, who reveals how archaeological evidence demonstrates that Amazonian Indigenous peoples not only inhabited these territories for millennia but also created the forest we know today, challenging the narratives of scarcity that underpin extractivism and offering keys to imagining regenerative infrastructure in the face of the climate crisis.
NAWE denounced the serious violations of the rights of uncontacted peoples by a U.S. foundation attempting to establish direct contact, highlighting how the lack of territorial control allows for outside interference that jeopardizes the survival of these peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon.