Tiny tribe wins lawsuit against oil industry
May 17, 2019
The Waorani people of Pastaza, a province in eastern Ecuador, just managed to save seven millions of acres of Amazonian rainforest by winning a major lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government.
The government had plans to auction off the land to be drilled for oil, as published in an Upworthy article titled “Millions of acres of rainforest saved: A tiny Amazon tribe just defeated big oil in a historic lawsuit.”