One of the spills occurred on the Negro river, near Manaus, and another in Napo river in the Ecuadorian jungle; IBAMA proposes an ’emergency coordination’
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Bolivia: Government will explore oil and gas in protected areas
Madidi and Tipnis parks in the Bolivian Amazon could be exploited. Meanwhile, studies are stopped due to lack of environmental license.
Guardian: Peru spares Amazon rainforest from oil and gas push
New hydrocarbon sites will all be offshore, but campaigners fear contentious oil and gas development in Amazon will still go ahead
Santiago Manuin warning about future socio-environmental conflict in the Peruvian Amazon
Community does not accept that the oil company Maurel et Prom initiate the exploration stage in lot 161 because they claim they have not been consulted beforehand.
New round of oil bids in the Amazon: Ecuador between extractive and conservatism
Indigenous Ecuadorians and environmentalists reject the oil round.
Ministry of Culture said do not issued EIA technical opinion in Block 88
The ministry requires extensive work to gather first-hand updated information on the vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situation inhabiting the Kugapakori Reserve that could be affected.
Oil boom threatens Amazon tribesmen
The Waorani tribe is prepared to fight to the death to defend their territory against oil exploration.
Ministry of Environment declares emergency in Rio Pastaza by oil spill
The government declared an emergency after confirming that many cases of environmental pollution in the region were not restored promptly by Pluspetrol and other oil companies.
Peruvian Amazon: technology promises to reduce the impact of oil wells
Today, oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon causes deforestation and contamination of rivers. New study shows the best techniques to reduce impacts.
Event in Canada to promote investments in the Ecuadorian Amazon was interrupted
Activists interrupted a seminar organized by the Ecuadorian authorities in Canada to invite Canadian oil companies to participate in auction of concessions in the Ecuadorian Amazon.