Our Children's River: Protecting Ancestral Lands From Extractive Industry

“Our Children’s River” follows La Guardia of Sinangoe, Ecuador, an Indigenous Guard patrolling their ancestral lands to protect one of earth’s most biodiverse places from extractive industries. This film was produced by the winners of the 2022 Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival. For more information, visit Bloomberg.com/green.

Indigenous people in Ecuador are using drones, trap cameras and GPS locators to keep intruders away from the rainforest.

Editorial Note: the ending cards in the film state that La Guardia's efforts preserved 32,000 hectares of land. The actual protections via the court were over 72,000 hectares of land, total.

An Encompass Films Production, Presented by the Honnold Foundation, in Partnership with Amazon Frontlines and Alianza Ceibo

Director: Dominic Gill
Producers: Kate Trujillo & Peter Walle
Executive Producer: Nadia Gill & Emily Teitsworth
Cinematography: Dominic Gill & Sebastian Pinzon Silva
Featuring: Graciela Quenama, Nixon Andy Narvaez, Edison Lucitante, Morelia Media, & La Guardia of Sinangoe

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Every few days, Nixon Andy grabs his spear, packs up his drone and walks deep into the Amazon rainforest on a two-day expedition to search for illegal loggers, miners and hunters.

Andy, 26, is a member of the A’i Cofán in northern Ecuador, an Indigenous community that has taken the policing of their land into their own hands. They rely on their ancestral knowledge of the rainforest, but have also more recently begun incorporating modern technology such as drones, trap cameras and GPS devices that run on renewable power.

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