They don't see the life they will suffer later," Nihua said. "The oil companies speak to two or three families at a time and offer them money to get permission to enter their lands. There are always families who want to negotiate.

To shore up their rights to control their land in the face of growing pressures, the Cofan hope to be awarded a collective land title - a challenge as their land lies within the Cayambe Coca national park.

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It also ruled the mining concessions violated indigenous communities' right to a healthy environment, based on Ecuador's "rights of nature" laws that protect rivers and ecosystems and that were enshrined in its constitution in 2008.

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"We monitor who's entering our territory without our permission. We're protecting our territory and rivers from people who want to cause damage," said the 26-year-old, who belongs to Ecuador's first uniformed and tech-backed indigenous guard, set up by the A'i Cofan under their own laws in the northern rainforest village of Sinangoe.

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"We live on these lands and we want to continue to live in harmony with nature as our grandparents did," said Nihua, wearing a crown of white, yellow and scarlet parrot feathers and with bars of red - a colour symbolizing strength and joy - painted above her cheeks.

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The same issue faces many indigenous communities in Ecuador and in other South American Amazon nations - from Colombia to Peru - who are fighting to preserve their culture and the rainforest from destruction.

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