News feed from sosyasuni.org site: news and campaign information about the Ecuadorian proposal to keep crude underground in Yasuní national park. http://www.sosyasuni.org/en Fri, 16 May 2008 00:11:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.sosyasuni.org/en News feed from sosyasuni.org site: news and campaign information about the Ecuadorian proposal to keep crude underground in Yasuní national park. http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=34 UpsideDownWorld (http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1211/49/) Quito, Ecuador — On a clear day, high in this Andean capital city, the nearby volcanoes glisten in the distance under the equatorial sun. Of the five visible volcanoes, the most startling is Cotopaxi — both for its proximity and for its remarkably receding glacier. Cotopaxi has lost 30 percent of its glacier over the last several years and people are taking notice. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:01:01 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=34 Corpwatch (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14982) by Agneta Enström. Manuela Omari Ima, a Waorani woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was born in the Yasuni National Park, a 2.5 million acre primary tropical rainforest at the intersection of the Andes, the Amazon and the Equator. That intersection is also the heart of a struggle between two plans: one for oil exploration and another that would permanently protect one of the most biologically diverse regions of the planet. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:12:12 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=34 Brooke Jarvis, YES Magazine (http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2274). Rafael Correa won the Ecuadorian presidency on the strength of his promises to deliver much-needed social programs to his country’s largely impoverished population. He also pledged to protect Ecuador’s natural heritage of biodiversity. Add to this political mix a lot of foreign debt and a billion or more barrels of oil located under a UNESCO bioreserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and it’s clear why some observers saw the nation as caught in a classic stalemate between development and environment. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:59:17 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=27 A transcendental decision that will define Ecuador's future Download the video (content/view/95/27/) Carlos Larrea M.1 The oil Project Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) is located the Amazon Rainforest, in block 43, crossed by the rivers Napo, Tiputini and Yasuní, on the eastern border with Peru. This block contains one of the most abundant heavy oil reserves in the country, yet it is also part of the Yasuní National Park, considered one of the most important biodiversity reserves on the planet which also includes the Intangible Zone, home of the voluntarily isolated and not contacted indigenous peoples, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:05:40 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=34 QUITO, Jan. 24 -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa Thursday ordered the creation of the ITT Yasuni Project Technical Secretariat to avoid the exploitation of the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (ITT) oil field in an Amazonian natural reserve. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:00:00 +0100