Amazon group turns to solar canoes in fight against rainforest oil devastation

Achuar community also hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollutionA canoe slides noiselessly upstream through a landscape of luminous bright clouds reflected in the water. A team of young indigenous people are onboard.Such vessels are an essential and ubiquitous part of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but this one boasts a hugely symbolic difference from its predecessors. It is powered by the sun. Continue reading...