We Will Not Be Saved

A memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe''s territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.>

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Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani leader, was born in Ecuador's Amazon, one of the most bio-diverse and threatened rainforests on the planet. She is the co-founder of both the Indigenous-led non-profit Ceibo Alliance and its partner organization, Amazon Frontlines. Nemonte led her people in an historic legal victory against the oil industry, protecting half-a-million acres of rainforest and setting a precedent for Indigenous rights across the region. Her leadership has been widely recognized; in 2020, she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America and was named to the BBC 100 Women and TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Mitch Anderson is co-founder and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organisation based in the Upper Amazon, which defends Indigenous peoples' rights to land, life, and cultural survival. In 2011, he moved to Ecuador's northern Amazon to start a grassroots clean water project with Indigenous communities living downriver from contaminating oil operations. Through building more than 1,000 clean water systems in over 70 villages, Mitch supported the formation of the Ceibo Alliance, an Indigenous-led non-profit that won the prestigious UN Equator Prize and whose victories for the Amazon rainforest have inspired millions worldwide. Amazon Frontlines was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest annual humanitarian award presented to nonprofit organizations, in 2024.

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'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of my people and the story of this forest.'

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She left the rainforest aged 14 to study with an evangelical missionary group. Over time, Nemonte's ancestors began appearing in dreams, pleading with her to return from the city and embrace her own culture.

She listened.

Now one of the most forceful voices in climate-change activism, Nemonte has spearheaded the alliance of Indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and helped protect over half a million acres of primary rainforest from Big Oil.

In this astonishing memoir, Nemonte partners with her husband - Amazon Frontlines founder Mitch Anderson - to reveal a life story as rich, harsh and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.

[ISBN: 9781472289711, RRP: £12.99]