John Seed

John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment and is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and occasional Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.

Ecuador Quietly Grants Transnational Corporations Rights To Protected Forests and Indigenous Land

The Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 4.25 million acres of forest reserves and indigenous territories to transnational corporations in closed-door deals without public knowledge or consent.

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Sarayaku women attend a ceremony where the Ecuadorian Government offered a public apology that came as part of a ruling by the Inter-American Human Rights Court which found that the government allowed for oil exploration in Sarayaku lands without their consent. Indigenous people will have access to the courts as part of a recent historical declaration protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples through-out the Americas, with the exception of the U.S. and Canada.

Ecuador (Editorial) -- The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. Ecuador has more orchid and hummingbird species than Brazil, which is 32 times larger, and more diversity than the entire USA. In the last year, the Ecuadorean

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