‘Every day, I have to think about mining’: Carlos Zorrilla on 30 years of fighting for Intag Valley

Mongabay
Jun 10, 2025, 4:05 pm280 ptsTrendingTop
Carlos Zorrilla has been living in an Ecuadorian cloud forest since the 1970s, and his last 30 years there have been spent fighting mining companies seeking to extract its large copper deposits. He and his community have successfully fought proposals by multiple firms in one of the most biodiverse regions on…

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