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 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:54:17 +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/News/Global-Governance-from-the-Amazon-Leaving-Oil-Underground-in-Yasuni-National-Park-Ecuador.html Pamela L. Martin , Ph.D., Coastal Carolina University Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador Paper Presented at the 51st Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 16-21, 2010 Download the paper 423.60 Kb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:49:11 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/News/Ecuador-s-Biodiverse-Paradise-Could-Still-Be-Lost-to-Oil.html By Pamela L. Martin, PhD, ENS Newswire (http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-16-02.html) CONWAY, South Carolina, February 16, 2010 (ENS) - In December 2009, as the world waited for a global climate change agreement at the UN Copenhagen climate summit that was never resolved, one bright spot for conservation remained - the protection of a paradise of biodiversity, a portion of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon. Ecuador's innovative plan to keep some 850 million barrels of oil underground and avoid nearly 410 million tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide was heralded as a first step forward for the planetary protection of megadiverse areas. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:18:43 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/News/Oil-in-the-Ground-or-Pie-In-The-Sky-The-Fight-for-Ecuadors-Yasuni-National-Park.html 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 a minor earthquake within government circles, but a reading of his dispute with President Rafael Correa suggests that whatever the personal grievances, the major problem is not what his resignation implies for the long term well being of the government. The real issue is the future of the complex project he was answerable for, and which led to his exit. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:42:59 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/News/Yasuni-ITT-Chronicle-of-a-Death-Foretold.html 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 last weekend, as President Rafael Correa undermined his own negotiating team, denounced foreign donors, and threatened to drill in the ITT oil block (named for the oil wells Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) in June. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:42:15 +0100 http://www.sosyasuni.org/en/Yasuni-National-Park/Global-Conservation-Significance-of-Ecuador-s-Yasuni-National-Park.html PlosOne (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008767) Yasuní has outstanding global conservation significance due to its extraordinary biodiversity and potential to sustain this biodiversity in the long term because of its 1) large size and wilderness character, 2) intact large-vertebrate assemblage, 3) IUCN level-II protection status in a region lacking other strict protected areas, and 4) likelihood of maintaining wet, rainforest conditions while anticipated climate change-induced drought intensifies in the eastern Amazon. However, further oil development in Yasuní jeopardizes its conservation values. These findings form the scientific basis for policy recommendations, including stopping any new oil activities and road construction in Yasuní and creating areas off-limits to large-scale development in adjacent northern Peru. Read article on-line (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008767) Download article in PDF 809.78 Kb Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:47:37 +0100