Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán show how to have your turtle and eat it too

Mongabay
Jul 17, 2024, 12:00 pm260 pts
At the end of the 1980s, the Indigenous Cofán community of Zábalo, inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, was alarmed by what was happening on the banks of the Aguarico River. Like in all the other tributaries of the Amazon, heavy hunting of yellow-spotted Amazon river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) and…

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