Traveling through northern Ecuador’s oil-rich landscapes feels like stepping into a paradox. The rainforest is breathtaking—dense green canopies and rivers winding like threads in a tapestry as far as the eye can reach—but beneath this beauty lies a history of extraction and erasure.  

Global efforts to negotiate a binding plastics treaty have stalled as petro‑states, industry lobbyists, and geopolitical tensions block meaningful production caps, even while plastic pollution accelerates toward catastrophic levels.

Join our travel into a territory that holds profound significance for the future of life on Earth, to explore how stories from specific places – and the cracks running beneath their surface – can illuminate pathways toward transformation.