In the copper-rich mountains of Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant
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Ecuador, among the world’s most biologically diverse countries, also holds enormous reserves of oil, copper, gold and other minerals. Global markets want them. Multinational companies are itching to dig. And a cash-strapped government is eager to sell. The legal battles are intensifying.