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An Amazon tribe just took on an oil company and won a landmark victory

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An Indigenous tribe of people called the Waorani in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a lawsuit that protected some half a million acres of forest land from being mined for oil drilling. A panel made up of

The court’s decision sets a legal precedent that could allow other indigenous nations across the Amazon to take the government to court in order to protect their home.

 

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