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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

Hummingbird
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

Hummingbird
Jan 1142 min read
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