Ecuador: Reasons not to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park

If you ever wondered where the world’s most biodiverse piece of land is, you might have guessed somewhere in the Amazon Rainforest. Well, there is a particular piece of the ever- dwindling-Amazon that takes the trophy for being the worlds richest place for animal and plant diversity: Yasuní National Park, inland Ecuador. However, in this incredible place it is located the largest reserve of heavy oil of this country.

Experts within Ecuador had proposed an alternative development package, the “Yasuni ITT Initiative”, which would have protected the rainforest, promoting the sustainable uses of biodiversity bases on ecotourism, agroforestry, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation and the respect of human rights of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation . And switched Ecuador’s development path from extractivism-dependence to economic diversification and renewable energies. Read Article

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