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South Africa’s ‘cancer alley’ residents face new threat from port development
MDG : 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize : outh Durban Community Environmental Alliance Desmond D'Sa South Durban environmental alliance co-founder, Desmond D'Sa, recipient of the 2014 Goldman prize. Photograph: Jenny Bates for the Guardian The smells drifting into the...
Kukamas abandon hunger strike over Peruvian Amazon oil pollution
The Guardian the Kukama Kukamiria's march to the city of Iquitos. They are protesting the toxic waste land left behind by over 40 years of oil contamination in their territories; and demand respect for their most basic human rights: access to clean water, safe food,...
Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters
The Guardian Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are...
Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park
Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there. Last August, Rafeal Correa scrapped a pioneering...
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...
The war against environmentalism
Ejolt By Joan Martinez Alier. The Hindutva nationalist right-wing prime minister Modi in India is rallying against Environmental Justice Organisations (EJOs) financed by foreign money. High on his list are EJOs from Scandinavian countries or Germany, which are...
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 ]...
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