In this episode of War on Nature, Global Conservation takes you deep into Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park, one of the Amazon's most biodiverse and threatened regions. Ecuador faces grave environmental challenges, including deforestation, illegal mining, and ecosystem pollution.

Hosted by Emmy-winning Director of Photography and Journalist Mack Woodruff, son of legendary reporter Bob Woodruff, this mini-documentary explores the courageous efforts of local indigenous communities and park rangers fighting to save their heritage and ecosystems.

The Sinangoe tribe, part of the larger A’i Cofan community, is featured as they patrol their ancestral lands, wearing traditional war paint and taking a stand against lawbreakers. These brave guardians collaborate with park rangers to safeguard Podocarpus National Park. Alongside them, Jeff Morgan of Global Conservation documented the arrest of violators, offering a stark look at the threats facing this fragile environment.

This episode also investigates the murky world of quasi-legal mining, where regulations are ignored and miners often answer to powerful extraction companies, both sanctioned and illegal.

Directed by Mack Woodruff and produced by Victor Ordonez, with an introduction by W.J. McKay, this film is a powerful testament to the fight to preserve the Amazon and its indigenous cultures.

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