Nemonte Nenquimo Says Mother Earth Is Calling and We All Need to Listen

Nemonte Nenquimo believes that Mother Nature is sending us a message—we just need to listen.

“She’s crying. She’s shouting. She’s screaming. She’s saying that I am when the tides are rising, the rivers are rising. There are droughts. And this is my language. This is my alarm to you.”

Nenquimo, an Indigenous leader of the Waorani peoples in Ecuador and founder of the nonprofits Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines, has focused much of her activism...