Siekopai Nation's Return 2025

This is a Ecuador news story, published by Wired, that relates primarily to Siekopai news.

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Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers

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In 2025 , a small indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for the first time in 80 years .

The Siekopai lived for centuries along what is now the border between Ecuador and Peru in the western Amazon .

They were decimated by disease, enslaved by rubber tappers and forcibly relocated to Jesuit missions.

The technological fixes of paper parks, carbon offset markets, and bureaucratic soil classifications are not working. And the irony is, indigenous communities that want to go home and protect their forests produce better carbon stats than the technocrats. They know how to leave the carbon in the trees, leave the oil under the soil, and leave the gold dust in the mountains. They deserve permanent ownership of their lands—for their benefit and that of the planet..

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