Thursday, August 29, 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

mongabay.com
August 26, 2013


 Great-tailed Grackle (Image by Michael Leveille)

When Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, announced on August 15th that he was abandoning an innovative program to spare three blocs of Yasuni National Park from oil drilling, it seemed like the world had tossed away its most biodiverse ecosystem. However, environmental groups and activists quickly responded that there may be another way to keep oil companies out of Yasuni's Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) blocs: a national referendum.  

Red more at http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0826-hance-yasuni-take-two.html 

No comments:

Post a Comment