A small community of rural Peruvians gathered in Lima to protest contamination of their natural resources by mining activity.

For over twenty-two years the community of El Ingenio has lived in the rubble of a “polluted dump.”

Despite being home to some of the most naturally rich regions on the planet, Ecuador, a nation comprised of tropical islands to the west and the dense Amazonian rainforest to the east, is not immune to human induced ecological destruction.