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Children from the A\u2019i Kof\u00e1n community addressed judges who had traveled to Sinangoe, Ecuador, in November to hear from Native groups.Credit…Johanna Alarcon\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I<\/span>n a victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, the country\u2019s highest court ruled on Friday that they must have a far stronger say over oil, mining and other extractive projects that affect their lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling is a blow to the ambitions of Ecuador\u2019s president, Guillermo Lasso, who had planned to double oil production and expand mining in coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a small community, but we have achieved something so great, so historic, that it will serve other communities that have the same problems of mining, oil and other extractive activity in their territories,\u201d said Wider Guaramag, a member of the A\u2019i Kof\u00e1n community of Sinangoe, in the country\u2019s north, which brought the lawsuit with legal representation from Amazon Frontlines, a nonprofit group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the ruling, if an Indigenous community refuses a project, the government can still move forward in \u201cexceptional cases.\u201d But it also states that \u201cunder no circumstances can a project be carried out that generates excessive sacrifices to the collective rights of communities and nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Parker, a lawyer with Amazon Frontlines who worked on the case, said the ruling represented \u201ca huge shift of power\u201d in the country. The government has been able to do what it wanted, he said. \u201cNow they need to get consent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecuadorean government officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A growing body of research shows that nature is healthier on the more than a quarter of the world\u2019s lands that Indigenous people manage or own. Two substantial oil spills have polluted the Ecuadorean Amazon since 2020, the most recent one being just last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous communities in the area oppose oil extraction, Mr. Guaramag said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The A\u2019i Kof\u00e1n community of Sinangoe is home to hundreds of people who live along the Aguarico River in northern Ecuador, where the foothills of the Andes meet the Amazon. Their case has its origins in gold mining, which has devastated areas of the Amazon<\/a> in recent years as global prices surged. When prospectors started illegally searching for gold on their land, they organized community patrols and detained some of them. Then, in early 2018, they found heavy equipment on the bank of the river opposite their land. When they learned that the government had allowed it, they sued and won in a lower court. The gold mining concessions were canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Catrin Einhorn, originally published by The New York Times. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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