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Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on March 22, 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears (via pre recorded video) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 23, 2022 for a hearing in the first ever court case involving the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Conta lived the first six or seven years of her life in voluntary isolation with her Tageri family. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

By Katie Surma

Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling

Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop

By Katie Surma

The photo posted on Twitter on July 22, 2020 purporting to show hundreds of brightly illuminated Chinese ships fishing illegally.

A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat

By Ian Urbina

“We are Ome Yasuni.” Members of the Baihuaeri community of Bameno stand before a ceibo tree in their ancestral territory inside Yasuni National Park. Credit: photo courtesy of the Ome Yasuni association and Javier Awa Baihua.

After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Waorani Group Fights New Industry Expansions In Ecuador

By Katie Surma

A Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Eduardo Mendúa (center), an Indigenous Ecuadorian activist fighting oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest, was shot to death in his garden on Sunday. Photo Courtsey of Kayla Jenkins

Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Oil Extraction on Indigenous Land, Is Shot to Death

By Katie Surma

Steven Donziger is seen at a "Free Donziger" rally held in front of the Manhattan Court House as he faces sentencing in contempt case in New York City on Oct. 1, 2021. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Their Lives Were Ruined by Oil Pollution, and a Court Awarded Them $9.5 Billion. But Ecuadorians Have Yet to See a Penny From Chevron

By Katie Surma

Demonstrators gather in Santiago, on Oct. 25, 2019, a week after protests started in Chile. Credit: Pedro Ugarte / AFP via Getty Images

Chilean Voters Reject a New Constitution That Would Have Provided Groundbreaking Protections for the Rights of Nature

By Katie Surma

Woolly monkey. Credit: Evgenia Kononova

Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

By Katie Surma

Toreadora lake in Cajas National Park in the highlands of Ecuador. Credit: Martha Barreno /VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are

By Katie Surma

View from the observation tower of rising mist from the rain forest canopy in the rain forest near La Selva Lodge near Coca, Ecuador. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Ecuador’s High Court Affirms Constitutional Protections for the Rights of Nature in a Landmark Decision

By Katie Surma

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