'Leave the gold in the ground': Ecuador's forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon | Global development

The Indigenous A’i Cofán people invoke their ancestors and carry spears but also use drones, GPS mapping and the courts as they fight to protect their land from a rapacious gold rush

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