Summary
In 2008, the Third Chamber of the Constitutional Court decided to suspend PETROBRAS’ environmental license for an oil exploitation project in Yasuni National Park, based on the precautionary principle. The Court addresses two types of arguments: the lack of studies to clarify that there will be no environmental damage in the construction of the Oil Facilities Center and the lack of consultation with the communities near the ecosystem, which include the Huaorani communities of Kawimeno and the Kichwas of Chiru Isla. Samona Yuturi and Eden recognize that “these are ancestral communities whose connection with the lands where extractive activities are planned to be carried out is the guiding axis of their lives, because they live their daily lives on these lands, from which they feed themselves” (Page 5).