A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest
Lives Less Ordinary
BBC
4.6 • 814 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nemonte Nenquimo’s passion for her rainforest home, and her love for an unlikely man, propelled her to achieve an historic victory for indigenous people in Ecuador. She took the national government to court to protect 500,000 acres of rainforest from destruction by the oil industry.
Nemonte and her husband Mitch Anderson have written a book together called We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest.
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: May Cameron Voiceover: Cecilia Cruz
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:06.9 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.1 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:13.7 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. |
| 0:20.7 | We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories |
| 0:24.4 | of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Alex Fontunzelman. |
| 0:27.3 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.7 | A Monca was my mono favorite mona, because this mono was my favorite monkey. |
| 0:42.5 | I love Monka because this monkey was nocturnal. |
| 0:46.3 | So during the day he slept on my head, he was very beautiful. |
| 0:51.0 | And he knew how to move his tail to indicate when he wanted to pee. So he would come |
| 0:56.8 | down from my head to pee and then go back up again. Nomonte Nenquemmo's very well-trained pet monkey |
| 1:07.0 | was always at her side as a young girl growing up in the Ecuadorian Amazon. |
| 1:12.4 | Apart from her younger brother, Amonka was her favorite companion, a wide-eyed monkey that liked |
| 1:18.5 | to curl up on her head. But what happened to Amonka encapsulates a lot of what Namonte's |
| 1:24.9 | childhood in the rainforest involved, |
| 1:33.2 | the love of her indigenous culture and its violation through industry and religion. |
| 1:51.8 | I'm Mabin Azar and you're listening to Life's Less Ordinary, bringing you unique stories of extraordinary individuals living in all corners of our planet. |
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