The Cordillera del Condor in western Amazonia, one of the world’s most important biological refuges. Below the green, flat mountaintop, vast tracts of primary cloud forests are being destroyed to clear space for large-scale mining operations. At the foreground of the image, a pit used as a geological testing site lies open in the middle of what used to be peasant farmland. In January 2013, on behalf of the rights of nature, a coalition formed by various indigenous and rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state for violating the constitutional law by allowing large-scale mining exploitation to enter the Cordillera del Condor. The conflict is still ongoing, both in the courts of law and at the forest frontiers of Amazonia.