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Your support, makes the difference between life and death, in Yasuni
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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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The President of the Republic of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has indicated that the first option for the country is to leave the crude oil of Yasuní untouched underground. The idea is to stimulate the national and international society to contribute in this expensive national decision. The government expects, through this mechanism, to recover 50% of the income it would have obtained by extracting the crude oil.
The State will emit certificates for the crude oil of Yasuní, and promise to keep the crude underground forever and use the funds to better protect Yasuní National Park.
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As delegates discuss various ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen, Ecuador has a simple message: keep untapped oil in the ground. Ivonne Yanez is an environmental activist from Ecuador, one of the larger oil producing countries in Latin America. Ecuador is believed to be sitting on an oil reserve of hundreds of millions of barrels. But the oil is located in the Yasuni National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Ecuador has launched a unique campaign to have the international community compensate the country in exchange for keeping the oil in the ground.
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 Chevron-Texaco in the Ecuadorian amazon region:
Chevron is responsible for creating toxic contamination 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez |
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Latest News
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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...
Friday, 12 March 2010
By Pamela L. Martin, PhD, ENS Newswire 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...
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....
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