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03 October 2011, 18.57 huffingtonpost.com
While the rest of the world succumbed to the last ice age, an ecological haven avoided the freeze. Today, it is one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, an unspoiled goldmine for scientific discovery, but cursed with an underbelly of almost one billion barrels of crude oil.Actress Bo Derek is an ambassador for a new initiative to save part of the Amazon rainforest and the last remaining voluntary isolated communities, including the Waorani tribe that currently lives there. |
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22 September 2011, 22.52 mongabay.com By Jeremy Hance. A new map highlights the importance of conserving Yasuni National Park as the most biodiverse ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere, and maybe even on Earth. Scientists released the map to coincide with the United National General Assembly in support of a first-of-its-kind initiative to save the park from oil exploration through international donations to offset revenue loss. Known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the plan, if successful, would protect a 200,000 hectare bloc |
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22 September 2011, 22.45 Justmeans.comThe UN and the Ecuadorian government have embarked on a joint mission to save one of the world's most bio-diverse forests. And it needs everyone's help.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced it is now accepting donations of all sizes to its trust fund to preserve in perpetuity a vital section of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park in the Amazon |
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02 September 2011, 06.58 NextFlowing from the Eastern slopes of the Andes, the Napo River in North Eastern Ecuador offers travellers a swift downstream ride. The broad river with occasional sand bars was so replete with driftwood that as the Oilwatch team sailed on it a week ago, we had to hold our breath when it seemed the pilot would run smack into some. Happily the over four-hour ride from Coca, the capital city of Orellana Province, to Neuva Rocafuerte, close to the Ecuadorian border with Peru, was devoid of |
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23 August 2011, 10.52 Ecuador is at an environmental crossroads
August 14th, 2011Author: Jeff Taylor
Ecuador has given the world a choice, pay them $60 million by December and they will not allow oil drilling in one of the most environmentally diverse areas of the world.
Ecuador has benefited in the past from the oil industry having earned $130 billion from over the decades and now gets 40% of its income from it.
But, according to the Guardian, another huge oilfield has been located under the Yasuni national |
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23 August 2011, 10.50 Ecuador: four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'
John Vidal
The Observer, Sunday 14 August 2011
When large reserves of oil were discovered under Yasuní national park, Ecuador offered the world a choice: give us money and we will not allow drilling. Now $60m must be found by December.
Where the foothills of the Andes meet the vast Amazonian rainforest in eastern Ecuador there is a small town called Shell. It's a pockmarked, |
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23 August 2011, 10.47 Documentary about the Yasuní ITT initiative by Verónica Moscoso.
A Wild Idea Trailer from veronica moscoso on |
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23 August 2011, 10.44 Ecuador Wants $60 Million by December to Save "Paradise"Por Gil C. Schmidt
13 de agosto 2011 11:28 PM EDT
Ecuador is willing to leave intact one of the last great wilderness areas in the world if some $60 million dollars is pledged by December 2011. The Yasuni National Park is a pristine rain forest at the foot of the Andes. Although oil has been extracted from the area since the 1930s, mainly by Shell Corporation, a recent oil find of about $7 to 8 bilion dollars in estimated worth |
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02 June 2011, 12.04 The World Environment Day, yearly on 5 June, is a good occasion to celebrate our environment and Mother Earth and that’s why Amazonia por la Vida is organizing on 5 June 2011 the festival “Wings for the Yasuni”.
The goal is to celebrate the World Environment Day but also to inform the public about the alternatives in the struggle for the extractivist model and taking the Yasuni case as a symbol for the post-oil societies, the festival will be organized in three neighborhoods of Quito to |
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26 May 2011, 15.04 Survival - The movement for tribal peoples
US oil giant ConocoPhillips has announced it is pulling out of the controversial oil block 39 in the northern Peruvian Amazon.
The decision comes after global outrage over the risk oil companies pose to the lives of two uncontacted tribes living in the area.
More than 50 international NGOs signed Survival’s letter last year asking oil companies Repsol, Perenco and ConocoPhillips to withdraw immediately from the region.
Uncontacted Indians lack immunity |
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23 April 2011, 14.30 http://www.prnewswire.com
Oil Giant Clearly Scared of Jury Trial That Could Create Additional Liability, Plaintiffs Say
NEW YORK, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To avoid jury trial, Chevron has filed papers before a U.S. federal court seeking to remove American lawyer Steven Donziger and his highly-respected counsel John Keker out of the first phase of a racketeering case in New York that the oil giant filed in February to try to escape paying an $18 billion judgment in Ecuador for |
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23 April 2011, 14.29 http://news.mongabay.com
From NASA: image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, the image shows vegetation 'greenness' during the 2010 drought, between July and September, compared to average conditions for the same period between 2000 and 2009 (except for 2005, the other drought year). The redder the image the less 'green' the forest. The "greenness index" measures how much photosynthesis could be happening based on how much leafy |
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07 April 2011, 20.18 In pictures: The life of the Huaorani in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest
A BBC crew visited the Yasuní recently and shot pictures of the life of the Huaorani living there.
Check the pictures |
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04 April 2011, 10.45 Yasuní - dos segundos de vida (two seconds of life) presents the complexity of the issues surrounding Ecuador’s unique, and for some, rather controversial, Yasuni-ITT Initiative. Different points of view cast a light, not only on what the government’s proposal is trying to achieve, but on the very the question of oil exploitation |
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01 April 2011, 12.02 Mongabay.com
Jeremy Hancemongabay.com March 31, 2011
The discovery of a new plant species is not uncommon, especially in places of remarkable biodiversity such as the Amazon rainforest. However, discovering a new plant genus, a taxonomic rank above species, is, according to Henk van der Werff fromt the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG), "a matter of luck and perseverance". Researchers with the Missouri Botanical Garden have been blessed with both as they have announced two new species of Amazonian |
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22 February 2011, 10.54 The Wall Street Journal
Regarding your editorial "Shakedown in Ecuador" (Feb. 16): Regardless of who is correct about the merits of the suit, you fail to mention that the plaintiffs originally filed it in federal court in New York. It was Texaco, the company Chevron acquired in 2001, that insisted that New York was not a convenient forum and asked that the case be dismissed in favor of litigating it in Ecuador. In 2002, the New York court agreed and dismissed the case on condition that the company |
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