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Captain Paul Watson Returns
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 16/0/2026 The Whale, the Dolphin and the Conscience of Humanity By A Hummingbird named Vida Operation 86 matters for more than what it achieved in Iceland. After everything Paul Watson has endured, he is once again an active force within the environmental movement. After years of pursuit by Japan and five months of imprisonment in Greenland, Watson also endured a bitterly contested struggle for control of Sea Shepherd—the organisation he crea

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11 hours ago5 min read


El Niño Finds a Wounded Amazon
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 21/08/2026 When the Amazon Rainforest Begins to Fear the Dry Season By A Hummingbird named Vida A rainforest should not fear the dry season. Its ceibos were raised by rain. Beneath them, mahogany, canelo and great-rooted higuerones rise through layers of palms, lianas and shadow. Macaws carry colour across the canopy; monkeys disperse seeds through the branches; pink river dolphins surface beneath skies reflected in waters that began their jo

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Aug 2127 min read


Environmental Emergency in the Cuyabeno
How a leaking oil well is threatening one of the world's most biologically diverse flooded rainforests at the headwaters of the Amazon. Echoes of the Pink Amazon Dolphin 11/07/2026 Article By: Mariana Almeida On 5 May 2026, Petroecuador's Well 4 (CUY-04RW), located at the headwaters of the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon, suffered a catastrophic failure of its produced-water reinjection system. During a subsequent field inspection coordinated by Delio Payag

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Jul 1715 min read


When Continuity Found its voice
Echoes of the Pink Amazon Dolphin In Memory of Marjan Minnesma 27/05/2026 Article By: A Hummingbird Named Vida When Lourens de Groot, founder of SELVA–NL, sent word of Marjan Minnesma’s passing, the news travelled from the low skies and canals of the Netherlands toward the great rivers of the Amazon like one more current joining distant worlds through water, memory, and shared responsibility. For many years, Minnesma stood among the clearest and most influential environmental

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May 274 min read


Extractive Expansion and Constitutional Risk in Ecuador
Echoes of the Pink Amazon Dolphin Extractive Expansion and Constitutional Risk in Ecuador 24/02/2026 Article By: A Humming Bird named Vida & Selva The Jaguar Who Walks Through Time A Moment Taking Shape There are moments when extraction does not announce itself with force, but with ease. No law proclaims it. No speech names it openly. Instead, decisions begin to move faster than landscapes can respond. Permits shorten. Oversight thins. Trade corridors widen. What was once deb

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Feb 1937 min read


Time, Continuity, and the Economic Value of Intact Ecosystems
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 01/01/2026 As global leaders gather in Davos to confront the growing sense that existing economic models no longer explain the realities they produce, one conclusion is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid: development logics built on extraction are failing. In the Amazon, this failure is not abstract. Working for three decades at the headwaters of the Amazon River basin, SELVA – Vida Sin Fronteras has witnessed how extractive economics h

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Jan 1142 min read


El Espejismo del Oro y la Memoria del Agua
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 21/8/2025 La Riqueza de la Naturaleza contra la Ilusión de la Explotación por: Este artículo continúa...

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Aug 22, 202510 min read


The Mirage of Gold and the Memory of Water
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/8/2025 The Wealth of Nature Against the Illusion of Extraction By This article continues a conversation already begun in earlier writings. In Echoes of Eden , the forest appeared as a living garden, carrying into the present the fragrance of origins. Later, from the high ridges of the Andes, water revealed itself as guardian of memory, flowing between moss and stone. Those reflections deepened in Cuenca, where the shimmer of promised miner

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Aug 20, 202510 min read


Del Edén a la “Modernización”: Ecuador en la Encrucijada de la Naturaleza y la Deuda
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 29/7/2025 “Ningún pueblo puede ser libre mientras su destino sea definido por otros.” — Archie Mafeje...

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Jul 31, 202513 min read


From Eden to “Modernisation”: Ecuador at the Crossroads of Nature and Debt“
Photograph by Kevin Schafer ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 29/7/2025 Editorial Comment This chronicle adopts an unconventional voice:...

Hummingbird
Jul 30, 202511 min read


The Quiet Dispossession of Eden: Ecuador’s Sacred Territories at Risk
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 30/6/2025 Editorial Opinion This Is Not a Law. It Is an Alibi. By Hummingbird For SELVA – Vida Sin...

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Jul 1, 20258 min read


The chuncho: the last fine wood of Ecuador between predation and hope
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 21/4/2025 Editorial Review: The Disappearance of Cedrelinga catenaeformis in the Ecuadorian Amazon;...

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Apr 22, 202519 min read


Listening to the Forest: Conversations with Aurelio Quenamá
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 8/4/2025 Listening to the Forest: Conversations with Aurelio Quenamá by Hummingbird This is the first...

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Apr 11, 202529 min read


The Green Diamond: SELVA's revolutionary approach to amazon primary rainforest restoration
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 21/03/2025 Introduction The Green Diamond is an original and exclusive creation of SELVA–Vida Sin...

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Mar 22, 202522 min read


Ecuador: Failure to comply with the popular will endangers one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world,
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN * 28/01/2025 A human rights expert is presenting arguments in the case of oil exploitation in Yasuní...

Hummingbird
Jan 28, 20255 min read


Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress:
ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 25/01/2025 Big oil spent a stunning $445m throughout the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump...

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Jan 25, 20256 min read


AMAZON FIRES & SMOKE
Amazon fires & smoke
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Sep 12, 20244 min read


The first dolphin of its kind:' Remains of ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon.
"AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN": Amplifying Selva-Vida sin Fronteras' Institutional Voice Find "Amazon Pink Dolphin" Exclusively on Iamselva.org...

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Mar 21, 20243 min read


How bamboo can help solve the world housing and climate crises
"AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN": Amplifying Selva-Vida sin Fronteras' Institutional Voice Find "Amazon Pink Dolphin" Exclusively on Iamselva.org...

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Mar 13, 20245 min read


SELVA-Vida Sin Fronteras' Bamboo housing project for Amazon Indigenous Communities.
"AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN": Amplifying Selva-Vida sin Fronteras' Institutional Voice Find "Amazon Pink Dolphin" Exclusively on Iamselva.org...

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Mar 11, 20244 min read
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