Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina's fracking dream

Community tell of devastating environmental impact on land where their animals grazed

• How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people - video explainer

The roar of the burning gas well could be heard almost a mile and a half away, from atop the high plateau where Albino Campo Maripe stood, looking down at the orange flames lapping the earth in the distance.

When he was a child, the 60-year-old Mapuche chief used to ride there bareback. Those days are gone for ever. The once-pristine landscape is now dotted with fracking wells and the white patches of land cleared for even more.