COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

• Maintain actively and permanently monitored the environmental impacts generated by Chevron-Texaco and other extractivist companies.
  
• Obtain data and generate evidence on existing pollution levels.
• Put pressure on State and companies policies through the denouncement of cases of malpractice.
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Thanks to the support of the Geography Institute of the University of San Francisco de Quito and the economic assistance of the NGO Hivos, in the first phase of the project six teams of monitors from the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana were trained in the following areas, in order to better detect damages caused by oil:.

o  use of drones

o  monitoring apps on smartphones

o  basic techniques for conducting studies on water

Currently, we are carrying out monthly reporting on oil impacts through the use of tools and techniques learned in the training phase. In addition, we are implementing monitoring activities in the territories belonging to indigenous and peasant communities that are suffering a process of deforestation ..

May 2016 - May 2018: Staff training

September 2018 - 2021: Active monitoring