On the coast, the highlands, and the Amazon unregulated logging, mining and pesticide use imperil the environment. Oil extraction in the Amazon has already caused the extinction of the Tetete and Zaparo nationalities and continues to threaten indigenous peoples. Indigenous nationalities are peoples with common histories, our own languages, governed by our own laws. A people without land is a people without life. From the land we get food, medicines, materials for ceremony, clothes, tools, and crafts.
Land is our sustenance.
Because of demographic pressures and the expansion of export agro-industry in the Andean highlands and colonist encroachment in the Amazon, each year indigenous communities are left with less land to produce. We count on our own legal team and uses diverse mechanisms to ensure the legalization of our territories and access to mother earth. The rich diversity of indigenous cultures in Ecuador is rapidly disappearing. We also promote natural medicines and traditional healing practices. Our work includes the '500 Years of Resistance Campaign' and the Continental Indigenous Coordinating Commission.