the Correa government signed a controversial agreementwith the Chinese-owned company Ecuacorrientes (ECSA) to extract copper, gold and silver within the traditional territory of the Shuar Peoples, in the Condor Highlands of southeastern Ecuador.
The Mirador Project includes a total of six open pit mining concessions encompassing almost 25,000 acres. According to the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), “Mirador’s open pit mines will eliminate all the vegetation and the superficial soil layer of the mined area including 4,000 species of vascular plants that contain the richest biodiversity in South America.”
The project will have a severe impact on the Shuar, their culture and their sacred sites, not to mention the very water and land they depend on.
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