Video. Ecuador's Waorani demand court action over Amazon oil projects

Video. Ecuador's Waorani demand court action over Amazon oil projects

Video. Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial rights threatened by government-backed oil projects.

Those mobilized demand that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador guarantee respect for their right to prior, free and informed consent on the processes to be carried out in their territories. The lawsuit is based on the historic ruling of 2019 that prevented the oil bid on more than 180,000 hectares of their Amazon rainforest. Faced with the situation, through a publication on social network X, the president of the Organization Waorani de Pastaza…

120 members of Waorani communities marched from the cities of Puyo and Arajuno to Quito to protest against the possible opening of an oil round in the Amazon. On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, they presented a document to the Constitutional Court to demand that their right to decide on their territory be guaranteed. Waoranis' entrance to Quito to protest against possible opening of an oil round in the Amazon was first published in Teleamazonas.