Communities in the Intag Valley of Ecuador have won a significant legal victory after a court ruled to halt copper mining in one of the world’s most biodiverse forests. The Imbabura Provincial Court ruled on March 29 that Chilean copper producer Codelco and Ecuador’s Empresa Nacional Minera (ENAMI EP) had violated communities’ constitutional right to […]
JUNÍN, Ecuador On the banks of a crystalline waterfall, biologist Andrea Teran lets out a yelp.She holds in the palm of her hand one of two frog species at the centre of a legal battle against Ecuador's mining industry.Teran, 37, is a specialist in the fragile existence of a creature called the Resistance Rocket Frog, which does not yet have a scientific name, and the
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And it became an argument to try to stop a 4,829-hectare mining project inside a cloud forest with prehistoric-looking trees in Junín, in the province of Imbabura, three and a half hours by car north of Quito