Why some Indigenous communities don't resist oil extraction in their territories

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More than half of the Ecuadorian Amazon has been marked for oil drilling, overlapping with Indigenous territories and areas of high biodiversity.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:00:01 UTC.

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