Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai is President of the governing board for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance, a coalition of 30 Indigenous nations in Ecuador and Peru. It aims to protect 35 million hectares of tropical rainforests by establishing a protected region that is off-limits to industrial-scale resource extraction under Indigenous peoples’ stewardship. It advocates a new economic model that prioritises the well-being of Indigenous communities, as well as the ecological integrity of the whole bioregion. Domingo is an Achuar leader from Ecuador with a 30-year history of serving the Indigenous movement.