Ecuador’s Amazon culture under renewed threat

Posted on April 2, 2011 • Filed under: Ecuador, Enviromental Issues, Latin America Indigenous Issues

Following the Chevron-Texaco US oil company’s $9bn fine for environmental damage in Ecuador’s Amazon region, the indigenous Huaorani people there worry about surviving in the rainforest because of the possibility of more oil exploitation in the area, as the BBC’s Linda Pressly reports. Read Report

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