ISHPINGO, Ecuador: A group of Indigenous Waorani women give a war cry warning that environmentalists are not welcome in their part of the Ecuadoran Amazon, where an oil field operates partly on a protected reserve. 'We will not allow 'kowori' (strangers) ... to enter,' said Waorani leader Felipe Ima, trans
ISHPINGO, Ecuador: A group of Indigenous Waorani women give a war cry warning that environmentalists are not welcome in their part of the Ecuadoran Amazon, where an oil field operates partly on a protected reserve.
In May, Ecuador's Constitutional Court allowed the request, and a plebiscite has been scheduled for August. In Ecuador, the Constitution recognizes Indigenous people's"collective ownership of land as an ancestral form of territorial organisation."An oil platform in the Yasuni National Park. Ishpingo together with the nearby fields of Tiputini and Tambococha form the so-called ITT block, or block 43, which holds an estimated 282 million of the South American country's proven crude reserves of 1.2 billion barrels.
It is in the Yasuni National Park - a biosphere reserve that houses some 2,000 trees, 610 birds, 204 mammals, 150 amphibians and more than 120 reptile species, according to the San Francisco University of Quito. In 2019, the Waorani of Pastaza won a historic court ruling that prevents the entry of oil companies on 180,000 hectares on their territory.
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