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Yasuni campaigners claim oil drilling petition results are being manipulated
The Guardian Indian women rotest against extraction of oil from Yasuni Amazon reserve, Ecuador An Amazon Indian woman holds a poster that reads in Spanish: 'Down with oil. Up with life' during a protest against the extraction of oil from the Yasuni national park....
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The first climate justice summit: a pie in the face for the global north
The Guardian Today it is accepted, but 20-30 years ago campaigners were struggling to even get an acknowledgement that climate change was happening, let alone that it was manmade. It would have been hard to imagine that one day we might hold the developed nations...
Human Rights Tulip candidate to YASunidos
Human Rights Tulip Saving indigenous peoples and nature in EcuadorYASunidos, a youth movement, gathered 750,000 signatures to support the proposal of leaving oil underground in Ecuador's National Park Yasuni. Youth in Protection of Biodiversity and Indigenous...
Ecuador: ¡Lo Logramos! Despite All Odds, Activists Present Signatures Needed to Save Yasuní
UpsideDownWorld One of the many collectives, Yasunidos LojaI'm in Quito, Ecuador. I wake up nervous at 8 a.m., getting ready to pick up a valuable envelope at the bus station that Cesar, a Yasunidos activist, mailed from Guayaquil, brought by his friend from New York...
New Celebrity PSA Urges Ecuadorians to Defend the Amazon
Amazon Watch A global call to keep oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park Los Angeles, CA – Amazon Watch and Yasunidos, a campaign comprised of a collective of Ecuadorian and international environmental organizations and advocates, released a new PSA featuring...
Beijing, Banks and Barrels: China and Oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Amazon Watch China's economy and its global influence are growing at a rapid rate. Nowhere is that growing influence clearer than in Ecuador, a country that Beijing has lent nearly $9 billion and has promised $7 billion more in financing. Those loans and promises add...
Ecuador pursued China oil deal while pledging to protect Yasuni, papers show
The Guardian The Ecuadorian government was negotiating a secret $1bn deal with a Chinese bank to drill for oil under the Yasuni national park in the Amazon while pursuing a high-profile scheme to keep the oil under the ground in return for international donations,...
Ecuador: The Last Push For A Chance Of A Reprieve On Yasuní
Life Arts Media "Do you agree that the Ecuadorean government should keep the crude in the ITT, known as block 43, underground indefinitely?" This is the question that will be put to a national referendum in Ecuador if 584,000 signatures are collected (5% of registered...
‘After All the People We Killed, We Felt Dizzy’
Newsweek As two military-style helicopters touch down in a remote village in the jungles of Ecuador, masked men with guns hop out and scurry into a one-room schoolhouse. Inside they capture their target: a 6-year-old girl who doesn't speak their language and can't...
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