Orbiting streaks of blue and red and black and white and coral and yellow twirl in a flash before my eyes. Llama-haired legs bounce and jump, reminiscent of the mythological Roman fauns who attended Faunus – God of the forest, plains and fields. I was watching Juventud Latina, an Ecuadorian folk dancing group whose native country became the first in the world to guarantee enforceable rights to nature in its 2008 Constitution.
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