FILE - Waorani Indigenous women take part in a demonstration in Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 20, 2024, demanding authorities comply with the decision to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of ...

Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But ...

On Aug. 20, Ecuadorians will vote in a binding referendum on whether they want oil drilling to continue in Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet. Environmentalists have ...

Yasuni National Park in Ecuador is reputed to be the biologically richest place on earth. Its 3791 square miles are believed to contain more species of plants and animals than any other comparable ...

Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters a range of world biodiversity records—from trees to amphibians to insects to mammals and an array of other plant and animal ...

QUITO, Ecuador, April 8, 2014 (ENS) – In 2007, for the meager sum of US$3.6 billion, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa offered the world a chance to buy into a conservation plan, called the Yasuní-ITT ...

*All links lead to posts in Spanish, except where otherwise indicated. Hundreds of people in several Ecuadorian cities have mobilized in defense of Yasuni National Park, demanding that its crude oil ...

QUITO, Ecuador, October 9, 2013 (ENS) – Decisions in two branches of Ecuador’s government have set the stage for a final battle over oil extraction in Yasuni National Park, a mega-diverse rainforest ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador's government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, just as Friday's court-imposed deadline for ...

AUSTIN, Texas—A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups, from amphibians ...

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