Ecuador’s Intag region spans two of the world’s most biologically significant areas within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot and is home to over one hundred species at risk of extinction. Intag’s critical ecosystem services and unique species, however, are threatened by mining operations. In 2022, regional Intag community leaders used a 2011 Earth Economics report to support an amicus brief in a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government over mining concessions. Earth Economics was present at the Provincial Court of Justice of Imburra to present the amicus brief in a case which is now headed to the Ecuadorian Supreme Court.