The Achuar of Peru’s Pastaza River in the northern Amazon have sent many oil companies packing. Now GeoPark, a company based in Chile, thinks it can succeed where Talisman, Oxy, and ARCO failed.
The Achuar remain as committed as ever to resisting extractive industries in their ancestral territory, helping defend its biodiversity and the global climate. Now they’ve asked international civil society to stand with them as they defend their sacred rainforests from an attack on their ancestral way of life.
https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/tell-geopark-stay-out-of-achuar-territory
https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/tell-geopark-stay-out-of-achuar-territory
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