Ecuador
Despite its tiny size
is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world Andean Cloud Forest
It is home to both the
and the last remnants of the megadiverse
Amazon Rainforest
10% of the country
In 2017, Ecuador was opened up for mining
across 2.9 million hectares
is now covered in mining concessions
Indigenous territories
Many mining concessions cover
– in direct violation of Ecuador's Constitution on the Rights of Nature
Protected Forests
&
800%
By 2021
mining in Ecuador is expected to expand by
way of life
stand to lose both their
and their
ancestral homelands
Indigenous tribes
80%
of mining concessions
Australian & Canadian mining companies
were bought by 536,101 Ha
Concessions held by Australian companies
cover
of all mining concessions by area 29%
Mining is increasingly militarised with
guarding private mines
soldiers & police
out!
Communities
want them
Gina Rinehart’s Hanrine mining concessions in north-east Ecuador are again hotbeds of unrest, with Ecuador’s Army using violence and tear gas to clear streets of citizens to allow Hanrine’s
Los Cedros Reserve to be protected from mining after comprehensive Ecuador Constitutional Court ruling on Rights of Nature and the environment In a significant ruling on December 1, the Ecuador
The National Council of the Judiciary in Ecuador confirmed the presence of irregularities and manipulation of the judicial computer system in the Protective Action that allowed Gina Rinehart
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