Between 2020 and 2021, an association called ‘Naruka’ managed to be awarded about 70% of the indigenous territory belonging to the Sapara Nation of Ecuador, exposing this Amazonian indigenous people to oil and logging companies entering their land which, until now, has been free of the extractive industry.
Between August 2020 and February 2021, I conducted a journalistic investigation that seeks to explain how this happened. The photographs were the product of this work and they complement the voices of the people of Torimbo, the first Sapara settlement that has positioned itself as anti-extractivist
The investigation was published in GK, an Ecuadorian digital media, and was carried out thanks to the research grant on extractive industries offered by this entity in 2021.