Yasuni

The issue has flared again with oil drilling in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, which has drawn protests from Hollywood stars including actor Leonardo DiCaprio and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The greens have not asked Amazon.com to do anything specific, only "take responsibility for ...

Close to 70% of Ecuadorans voted in favor of further safeguards for the Yasuni national park as part of the government's ... Subscriber-Only Content. BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and features every month, always concentrating on how to make or save money in Latin ...

Located in eastern Ecuador, the Yasuni Park is a unique ecosystem. Thousands of species of plants and wildlife are concentrated in this part of the Amazon rainforest. But the park and its treasures are directly threatened by drilling for oil. Ecuador's Yasuni National Park covers 10,000 square kilometres of ...

In addition, said critics, it was likely that an army of oil workers would clash with the two semi-nomadic tribes of Waorani Indians known to be living within the national park. But in correspondence with the Guardian, the Ecuadorean government has claimed that a combination of the latest drilling technology ...