In the late 1990s, the Kichwa community of Sani Isla, in northern Ecuador’s Amazon region, learned that the oil company Occidental (Oxy) had plans to conduct exploration on their communal territory. Orlando Gualinga, one of the community’s leaders, had been working for the company for several years. “Boss, in an extreme case where seismic studies … Continue reading Sani Isla: A Kichwa community that found alternatives to oil in conservation and tourism