Indigenous leaders: stop oil drilling in the Amazon

Fearing the economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic may encourage politicians to pursue more oil drilling in the Amazon, indigenous leaders are calling for help to stop companies drilling in the waters. Domingo Peas: "The Amazon purifies the air for the entire continent. Therefore it is important to no longer extract oil because the oil and mining destroy the river."That is Domingo Peas, a member of Ecuador's 18,000 strong Achuar, one of 20 indigenous nationalities living in an area