Article 50N51 Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil

Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil

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Francesc Badia i Dalmases in Kapawi, Ecuador
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Ecuadorian indigenous groups hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollution


A canoe slides noiselessly upstream through a landscape of luminous bright clouds reflected in the water. A team of young indigenous people are onboard.

Such vessels are an essential and ubiquitous part of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but this one boasts a hugely symbolic difference from its predecessors. It is powered by the sun.

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