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Rights and Responsibility: The Failure of Yasuní-ITT and What it Means for Ecuador’s Indigenous Peoples 26 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
In the wake of President Correa's decision to terminate the historic Yasuní-ITT initiative the big question has been: Who is to blame for the initiative's failure?
Race to Save Ecuador's Yasuní National Park from Oil Lobby 26 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
The fate of one of the hotspots of global diversity is hanging by a thread as conservation and indigenous groups in Ecuador race to raise a petition of over half a million names which would force a na...
Ecuador Stops Protecting Its Rainforest – to Pay Off Debt to China 22 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
When a poor nation finds a massive oil reserve beneath a rainforest with more species per hectare than in all of North America, it makes for a nettlesome problem. When you add in a huge amount of debt...
Another State of Environmental Emergency in the Peruvian Amazon? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:52 am
The situation in the Corrientes is not new, and well-documented, as FECONACO noted: "since the 80s, studies in the region have shown the effects of contamination in fish, waters, and even the public h...
Ecuador Says It Will Launch Controversial Drilling in Amazon Park 20 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
Researchers consider the nearly 10,000 square kilometers of land within Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park to be one of the world’s richest biological hotspots. Yasuni is also the territory of the Waorani...
Oil is Not Life in the Amazon 20 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
In many ways, Yasuní-ITT was doomed from the beginning by the world's greed for oil and Ecuador's economic dependence on that greed. But enough with the political analysis. What is most upsetting to m...
Ecuador Scraps Plan to Block Rain Forest Oil Drilling 20 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
The decision by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to spare the species-rich Yasuní rain forest in eastern Ecuador from oil development has dashed hopes for what environmentalists ha...
Plan to Ban Oil Drilling in Amazon Is Dropped 18 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
"It could have been used as a model for other sensitive areas," said Matt Finer, a scientist with the Center for International Environmental Law, referring to the fund. "But now that it has failed, th...
Ecuador President Pulls Plug on Innovative Yasuni-ITT Initiative 17 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
Quito, Ecuador – In an evening address to the nation on Thursday, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa officially terminated the historic Yasuni-ITT proposal, and announced that PetroAmazonas, the state ...
Ecuador Approves Yasuni National Park Oil Drilling in Amazon Rainforest 16 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
President Correa said it would affect less that 1% of the park, but the termination of the conservation initiative has stirred up fury among environmentalists and is likely to upset the population at ...
