Gold Mining in Ecuador Destroys the Forest

New Gold Rush Kills the Forest

Mining is destroying the Amazon, you can save it

The Amazon is bleeding gold. In Ecuador’s rainforest, illegal miners carve roads into virgin jungle, dig deep into sacred land, poison rivers with mercury, and leave behind devastation. Forests vanish. Wildlife dies. Indigenous tribes lose their home. “We used to drink from the river. Now it kills our fish and our children,” says Rosa, a Sinchi Warmi mother. This is not distant. It is happening now. Bulldozers run day and night, pushed by greed and silence. But there’s hope. Through Forest Guardians, you can help reclaim and protect this land, for good. This isn’t charity. It’s resistance. It’s ownership. It’s solidarity. We buy threatened rainforest, turn it into protected land, and hand it back to the Indigenous women who’ve defended it for generations. The gold must stay in the ground. The forest must stay alive.

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The impact of Gold Mining

Mining poisons rivers with mercury

Forest turns to wasteland in days

Indigenous land rights are ignored

Travel with impact, not indifference

Help stop the gold rush with real protection

The True Cost of Gold

Behind every cheap gold bracelet is a broken rainforest. Miners leave nothing but mud, death, and silence. The forest is gone forever, no regrowth, no recovery.

Meliza, Community Leader

When the forest stopping bearing fruit as before, it was as if the forest began to weep in silence.

The Fight for Survival

The Sinchi Warmis live next to these mining zones. Their water is polluted. Their ancestral land is encroached. Their voices are ignored. By turning rainforest into tourism-based conservation, we give their struggle visibility and income to resist.

Be Part of the Resistance

You can sponsor forest land once, and only once. It will always stay protected, and your name will be tied to it. You can travel, visit, and meet the guardians. Or simply stand with them, map in hand, and say: This piece of Amazon didn’t fall.