By Mike Gaworecki We have two fascinating conversations about forests in the Americas for you on this podcast episode: the first is the story of how the Shuar Indigenous community in Ecuador recently won a major victory to protect its ancestral territory of Tiwi Nunka Forest from cattle ranchers, loggers and miners: “Ecuador had not declared community protected area management by Indigenous peoples until Tiwi Nunka. This area is the first of its kind in Ecuador, and one of the few in the entire Amazon,” says Felipe Serrano. He’s Ecuador country director for Nature and Culture International, wh…