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Article

15 Feb 2016

Author:
Osprey Orielle Lake & Leila Salazar-López, Amazon Watch

Ecuador: Women’s organizations support rejection of new oil concessions by Amazon women

“Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon and International Allies Reject New Oil Concessions, Stand for Rights of the Earth and Communities”

In late January 2016, the government of Ecuador signed a contract with Chinese corporation Andes Petroleum [joint venture CNPC & Sinopec], handing over rights for oil exploration and extraction in two controversial Amazonian blocks which overlap the traditional territory of the Sápara and Kichwa peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Sápara Indigenous people are a small, threatened group of only 300, officially recognized by UNESCO as an "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity"…Concession plans open up almost a million acres in the center of Ecuador's road-less southeastern Amazon, where Indigenous communities have successfully prevented fossil fuel extraction for decades. The concession means large swaths of deforestation and irreversible devastation of the forest's magnificent ecological, social and cultural diversity…In response to the request of Indigenous allies, we stand in solidarity with the Statement of Amazonian Indigenous Women In Defense of Life, Territory and Good Living and the Statement of the Association of Sapara WomenAdd your signature to the petition here.