ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN Laren: 23/10/2026 Help SELVA protect the forest that sustains the region’s only uncontaminated freshwater supply By: In the Ecuadorian Amazon, clean water still flows from the forest at SELVA’s UNESCO-recognised Amazon Reserve for Peace at Aguarico. According to the Municipality of Lago Agrio, this forest sustains the only uncontaminated freshwater source in the surrounding region—from Lago Agrio to Tarapoa, covering approximately 1,000 squar

ECHOES OF THE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 23/09/2026 The Cuyabeno Must Not Become a Chronicle of a Death Foretold By A Hummingbird named Vida With gratitude to Xandra, our edelweiss, whose gentle insistence brought this article into being. There are moments when new words allow an old wrong to be seen more clearly. The Amazon helped Pope Francis bring the destruction of the natural world into the moral conscience of the Church. In Laudato si’, and later through the Amazon Synod, he j

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

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

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