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

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

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

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

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