A big thanks to this week’s guest artist Riccardo Guasco

In a landmark victory, the Waorani people of Pastaza, an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon, successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by Big Oil companies.

After setting an invaluable legal precedent for other indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon by accepting a Waorani bid for court protection to stop an oil bidding process, the court also halted the contemplated auctioning of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of indigenous territory.

Source: Captain Planet/Amazon Frontlines

[https://www.captain-planet.net/amazon-tribe-wins-lawsuit-blocks-big-oils-bid-to-destroy-millions-of-acres-of-rainforest/](https://www.captain-planet.net/amazon-tribe-wins-lawsuit-blocks-big-oils-bid-to-destroy-millions-of-acres-of-rainforest/)