Stories about Ecuador from June, 2014
The Inca Road Is a New World Heritage Site
For the first time in the 40 years of World Heritage convention, six countries united to submit a joint application to designate a cultural site as world heritage. Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru requested that the Incan Road be included as a cultural heritage site. The announcement was made in...
The Launch of Rising Voices Amazonia Microgrants
Are you a community working for, from, or in the Amazon and need funding and support for an idea of how participatory media can help tell your story? Keep reading!
Community Resistance in Ecuador
The website BallenitaSi.org lists [es] nine resisting communities in Ecuador that, “is going through one of the worse community-level crisis about mining and oil extraction all along the country”. One of such communities is Sarayaku, in Pastaza Province: Sarayaku es la comunidad que con mayor éxito ha podido defender su...
