Osvaldo, an indigenous man from the Kofan community of Sinangoe with his visor to navigate drones during a training day for the use of drones and GPS locators. On October 22, 2018, the Kofan people of Sinangoe in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a historic legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River, one of Ecuador's largest and most important rivers, and overturn 52 mining concessions that had been granted by the government in violation of the Kofan's right to consent, freeing more than 32,000 hectares of primary rainforest from the devastating environmental and cultural impact of gold mining.