Patricia Gualinga is a leader of the Sarayaku Indigenous people. They live in the Amazon region of Ecuador.
The Amazon has nearly 400 billion trees and the largest diversity of birds, fishes and animals in the world. It also has oil.
Oil is a resource that powerful companies want to remove from the ground, and sell.
The Sarayaku are very worried that drilling for oil could damage the environment on which they depend for their survival. Oil spills could contaminate their food and water.
They have other reasons to be worried.
A company from another country began taking oil from their lands without permission. The explosives the company used put the safety of the Sarayaku in danger.
Patricia Gualinga and other community members have had to be brave to stand up against oil companies that threaten their territory and water.