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09-20-2016, 03:40 AM
This activist has kept greedy oil companies off Indige**us land for 25 years
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Indige**us leader Patricia Gualinga (http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1120-patricia-gualinga-warrior-for-the-amazon) lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, where oil, minerals and lumber are abundant. She says her people, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, are one with the land.*
It's land companies and miners are hungry to destroy. But Gualinga won't let that happen.
SEE ALSO: Indige**us leaders hold powerful press conference on climate action in Paris (http://mashable.com/2015/12/07/indige**us-paris-climate-summit/)
For the past 25 years, Gualinga has been tirelessly dedicated to keeping oil, mineral and lumber extraction off of Sarayaku land.
At the 2016 Social Good Summit on Monday, Gualinga — who is the international representative for the Kichwa of Sarayaku of the Ecuadorian Amazon — spoke with actor and advocate Alec Baldwin about her fight to keep indige**us land pure, while also curbing climate change. Gualinga's answers were translated into English for the discussion by Leila Salazar-López, executive director of Amazon Watch (http://amazonwatch.org/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/indige**us-climate-social-good-summit-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Indige**us leader Patricia Gualinga (http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1120-patricia-gualinga-warrior-for-the-amazon) lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, where oil, minerals and lumber are abundant. She says her people, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, are one with the land.*
It's land companies and miners are hungry to destroy. But Gualinga won't let that happen.
SEE ALSO: Indige**us leaders hold powerful press conference on climate action in Paris (http://mashable.com/2015/12/07/indige**us-paris-climate-summit/)
For the past 25 years, Gualinga has been tirelessly dedicated to keeping oil, mineral and lumber extraction off of Sarayaku land.
At the 2016 Social Good Summit on Monday, Gualinga — who is the international representative for the Kichwa of Sarayaku of the Ecuadorian Amazon — spoke with actor and advocate Alec Baldwin about her fight to keep indige**us land pure, while also curbing climate change. Gualinga's answers were translated into English for the discussion by Leila Salazar-López, executive director of Amazon Watch (http://amazonwatch.org/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/indige**us-climate-social-good-summit-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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