‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

 “We don’t have to choose between gold and water,” says María Eulalia Silva, head of Ecuador’s Chamber of Mining. “We don’t have to choose between mining and the environment. When things are done right, we can have the best of both worlds.”

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