Victory! Gas Project in U'wa Territory Dismantled

26/02/2015 - http://amazonwatch.org/

What a difference a year can make! In early 2014, Amazon Watch began receiving urgent alerts from Colombia's U'wa people about a new threat to their territory. In a public communiqué dated February 26th 2014, the U'wa Association denounced the Magallanes gas exploration project as "an imminent threat to the physical, social and cultural integrity of the U'wa indigenous people, along with [their] environment and ancestral territory." Just days before, the U'wa became aware of... Read more