Under Rich Earth tells the story of an extraordinary collision between humble family farmers and the powerful global mining industry.
Passionate and provocative, Under Rich Earth offers critical
insights from 'peasant' farmers whose communities are torn apart by global forces. Learn more about this remarkable film >>
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An
Update of Current Work
DECOIN was founded in January 1995 as a grass-roots environmental
organization to find ways to conserve the unique biodiversity in the Intag
area of northwestern Ecuador. The area is part of two of the world's most
important biotic regions, the Tropical Andes, and the Chocó-Darien
Western-Ecuadorian Biological Hotpots. The area of influence of our work
encompasses several life zones, including tropical rain forests, and cloud
forests. More...
About DECOIN
Every year, Ecuador loses another 2.3 percent of its forests
- it has the highest deforestation rate in South America.
In an effort to reverse the trend with local and regional
eco-activism, the grass-roots organization DECOIN was founded
in January of 1995.
DECOIN (Organizacion para la Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica
de Intag) is a regional organization created to battle perhaps
the greatest threat to the forests: the mining companies
that have thousands of acres of government-granted concessions
throughout the Intag.
