Study presents an overview of the Amazon on 6 major threats: mining, oil, roads, deforestation, fire and hydroelectric.
Tag: oil
BBC: The struggle for oil in the Amazon
Official plans of extraction of natural resources put in conflict Ecuador’s president and indigenous leaders of this Andean country.
Sierra del Divisor, an Amazonian paradise with many threats
Fourth Power TV program aired a story on the Sierra Divisor Reserved Zone, a lush paradise mountains in the Amazon of Ucayali.
Amazon Under Pressure 2012 Atlas
Special about the impacts of mining, oil, roads, deforestation, fire and hydroelectric power plants in 9 countries of the forest.
25% of territories of indigenous communities in the Andean Amazon of overlapping with lots of hydrocarbons
U.S. Department of Interior has this statement.
Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative has raised 8 percent of the total amount needed to fully fund the idea.
El Comercio: 794 oil spills in the northern Amazon
From this month Ecuadorians can know the impact of the oil industry in the provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana, in the northern Amazon.
Ecuavisa: Indigenous protest against oil contracts in the Amazon
The tender of five oil blocks in the Ecuadorian Amazon was postponed by the Government, face of resistance the natives of Pastaza and Morona Santiago.
Terra:The fight of indigenous Ecuadorians and Chevron reaches Argentina
The case of environmental pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is about to come to court in Argentina, where the company would suffer the seizure of their property for the first time.
La Hora: CONAIE will will appeal to UN against the opening of new oil fields in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador will ask the UN and the International Labour Organisation to review the Government’s consultation.