This story is part of a Mongabay series on female environmental defenders in the Amazon. Read about the lives and work of Maydany Salcedo, Alis Ramírez, and Etelvina Ramos. On May 9, 1983, Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo’s placenta was planted in the mountains of Putumayo, where Colombia’s Amazon rainforest meets the Andes. Her mother, Concepción Buesaquillo, … Continue reading Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains