Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Be Jaguars is a powerful memoir of resistance and environmental protection from a Waorani leader who successfully fought oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Nenquimo weaves together personal narrative, Indigenous philosophy, and urgent environmental activism, revealing how the fight to protect land is fundamentally a fight to preserve culture, identity, and ways of life that have sustained communities for millennia.

Because Nenquimo shows us that protecting the rainforest is not about preservation but about honoring living relationships between people and place.