Indigenous leader calls for ‘everyone’s help’ to save Amazon
By AFP
17 October 2021 |
12:10 pm
Birds chirp near a river in the Ecuadorian jungle, five hours from the capital Quito, as Gregorio Mirabal expresses fear for the 500 tribes that often act as guardians of the Amazon rainforest and who face attacks, and even death, as a result.
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