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Scientists from all over the world have qualified Yasuní as the zone with the highest biodiversity of the world. Within one hectare of Yasuní, 644 different species of trees have been identified. There are as many different species in one hectare of Yasuní, as there are in the whole of North America.
Yasuní has been declared a world biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
This biosphere reserve is also the territory of the indigenous Huaorani people and some tribes who live in voluntary isolation. These are the last free human beings of Ecuador, true warriors who live in the so-called society of abundance, because they only produce the minimum to satisfy their own needs.
The foreseeable impacts of oil exploitation in the park are: contamination, deforestation, destruction of the social fabric, extinction of cultures etc.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010
by Gerard Coffey - Alborada.net
The resignation in January of the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister,
Fander Falconí came as a real shock to most observers; it was probably
not something Falconí himself had foreseen. His departure provoked...
Friday, 22 January 2010
by Kevin Koenig, Northern Amazon Program Coordinator
, Amazonwatch
Ecuador's historic proposal to keep some 850 million barrels of
crude that lay beneath the country's stunning Yasuní National Park hit
a familiar roadblock...
Friday, 15 January 2010
Friends:
For almost three years we have kept alive the proposal to keep the oil
underground in the ITT block of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
International support has been impressive. However, we are
now in a high-risk stage.
The...
Friday, 15 January 2010
Treehugger, Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due
to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the
country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest.
The president of...
Friday, 15 January 2010
New York Times , QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's foreign minister resigned Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized his handling of negotiations to prevent oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve.
Fander Falconi was the third...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Commentary by Nikolas Kozloff, special to mongabay.com
As climate change
negotiations continue full force in the Danish city of Copenhagen,
Latin American countries are hoping the Global North will commit to its
“climate debt” by...
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
By Naomi Klein - November
11th, 2009
Published in Rolling
Stone
One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United
Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early
December, was being...
Friday, 23 October 2009
amerias program. Alberto Acosta, Eduardo Gudynas, Esperanza Martínez, and Joseph H. Vogel | August 13, 2009
The government of Ecuador has presented a novel proposal to not exploit
the oil reserves of the Yasuní National Park....
Friday, 07 August 2009
Kevin Gallagher, Guardian.co.uk. Should the world pay Ecuador not to
extract oil? President Rafael Correa's argument makes perfect economic sense.
Friday, 03 July 2009
The Economist.
An ambitious scheme to save pristine forest starts to take shape
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