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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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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
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