Ecuador community activism news

• Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 17, 2025)
• Fresh water and wildlife brought back to degraded páramos in Ecuador, Ana Cristina Alvarado, news.mongabay.com (Aug 07, 2025)
• A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2025)
• Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025)
• A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 17, 2025)

• Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)

• How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
• Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
• Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
• Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough

• "A floating, multifunctional space for a community": Ecuador's Santay Observatory tests out residence on water, The Daily Alternative (Nov 04, 2022)
• Nature surpassing nation: the Amazon Sacred Headwaters shows how a bioregion can transcend borders, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2022)

• Waorani People Win Landmark Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government, Apr 26, 2019...^[1]
• One Ecuadorian City Is Converting Its Entire Bus Fleet To Electric By March 2019, Nov 14, 2018...^[2]
• Ecuador's "citizen revolution", Aug 7, 2017...^[3]
• What Every Country Can Learn From Ecuador, May 17, 2015...^[4]
• Ecuador, Open Knowledge, and 'Buen Vivir': Interview With Michel Bauwens, December 16, 2013...^[5]
• Bauwens Joins Ecuador in Planning a Commons-based, Peer Production Economy, September 20, 2013...^[6]
• Is this the new economics utopia? Saamah Abdallah, Researcher, Centre for Well-being,^[7] August 31, 2011.
• Ecuador Approves New Constitution: Voters Approve Rights of Nature, Ecuador Follows Lead of U.S. Communities: First Country in the World to Shift to Rights-Based Environmental Protection, Working With Legal Defense Fund^[8] September 28, 2008.

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