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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Paola LOPEZ

Envious Shamans And Pollution: Diverse Threats To Ecuadoran Amazon

Faced with dwindling fish numbers, Indigenous Ecuadorans look to the spirit world for help (Credit: AFP)

When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the animals' passage through the rivers of Cuyabeno, a biodiverse wetland.

Experts, however, point the finger at pollution, deforestation and climate change wreaking havoc on the second-largest protected area in Ecuador.

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