Oilwatch in Latin America
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Why Ecuador’s president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini region of Yasuni contains more species in a hectare than all the wildlife in North America. Photograph: Alamy The decision by Ecuador's president Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to permanently forgo exploiting hundreds of millions of...
Ecuador: oil company has built ‘secret’ road deep into Yasuni National Park
Ecologist While no one had been looking, while the world wasn't watching, PetroAmazonas went ahead with a plan rejected by the Ministry of Environment years before. The existence of the 'secret road' into Yasuni, leading directly to an oil production platform, has...
Is This the Ecuador Government’s Way of Mocking the UN?
The Huffington Post There was a reason Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, chose to announce his support for an initiative to forgo exploiting the Tiputini, Tambococha and Ishpingo oil fields under the Yasuni National Park - home to indigenous peoples and one of the...
Ecuador’s continued conflict over oil drilling, indigenous rights and biodiversity
Redd Monitor Last month, Ecuador's government approved permits for oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park. The drilling will be carried out by a subsidiary of the national oil company, Petroamazonas and will start in 2016. The permits are in the...
Yasuni, block 31: ecological trail or oil road? Technical report
Geoyasuni High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveals Petroamazonas Violated Environmental Impact Study by Building Road into Yasuní National Park Matt Finer (a), Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo (b), Francesco Ferrarese (c), Massimo De Marchi.[ full technical report PDF ]...
Leaked documents cast doubt on Ecuador’s commitment to forest plan
The Guardian Dolls representing the oil exploitation in the Yasuni Natural Park Ecuador's government was moving to install a power plant to exploit oil fields under the iconic Yasuni national park at the same time as pursuing a high-profile international scheme not to...
Yasuni campaigners claim oil drilling petition results are being manipulated
The Guardian Indian women rotest against extraction of oil from Yasuni Amazon reserve, Ecuador An Amazon Indian woman holds a poster that reads in Spanish: 'Down with oil. Up with life' during a protest against the extraction of oil from the Yasuni national park....
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The first climate justice summit: a pie in the face for the global north
The Guardian Today it is accepted, but 20-30 years ago campaigners were struggling to even get an acknowledgement that climate change was happening, let alone that it was manmade. It would have been hard to imagine that one day we might hold the developed nations...
Human Rights Tulip candidate to YASunidos
Human Rights Tulip Saving indigenous peoples and nature in EcuadorYASunidos, a youth movement, gathered 750,000 signatures to support the proposal of leaving oil underground in Ecuador's National Park Yasuni. Youth in Protection of Biodiversity and Indigenous...
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