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Helena Gualinga at the launch of the historic Kawsak Sacha ‘Living Forest’ Declaration by her community of the Kichwa Pueblo of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The ultimate goal of the Kawsak Sacha Declaration is to protect Indigenous lands and recognize the inseparable physical and spiritual relationship between the Peoples of the Living Forest, and all of the beings that inhabit and compose it. (Photo: Sophie Pincetti for WECAN International)