‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Mongabay
May 8, 2020, 8:55 am232 pts
PUCARÁ ALTO, Ecuador — Bellowing winds thrashed the farmers’ corn stocks and the wild patches of eucalyptus cropping up the largest hill in Pucará Alto. Then there was a crack, and it was all over. Pinkul Tayta, the great tree that rose out of the peak of the hill and was rumored to have lived for…

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