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Category: Ecuador

Ecuador’s continued conflict over oil drilling, indigenous rights and biodiversity

Posted on 3 June 20143 June 2014

Last month, Ecuador’s government approved permits for oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park. The drilling will be carried out by a subsidiary of the national oil company, Petroamazonas and will start in 2016.

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Government of Ecuador shuts down Fundación Pachamama for “affecting the public peace.”

Posted on 5 December 201330 November 2015

Yesterday, officials from the Police Administration of Pinchincha closed down Fundación Pachamama’s office in Quito. They left a resolution from the Ministry of Environment stating that the organisation is dissolved.

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REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+?

Posted on 28 August 201326 June 2019

“REDD+ projects can be expected to have poor social and environmental outcomes unless they use substantially different approaches, which build on the capabilities of the wide range of local natural resource managers to undertake efficient resource management and conservation in the Amazon.”

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Ecuador plans to drill for oil in the Yasuní National Park

Posted on 22 August 201330 November 2015

Ecuador has abandoned its plans to leave the oil where it belongs under the Yasuní National Park. Ecuador was asking for US$3.6 billion, or half the market value of the 850 million barrels of oil in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil field below Yasuní. Last week, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa cancelled the plan and announced that…

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BluForest Inc to pre-sell carbon credits from REDD project in Ecuador to non-existent UK company

Posted on 20 August 201323 March 2015

BluForest Inc claims to be setting up REDD projects in Ecuador. It plans to generate carbon credits from 105,000 hectares of land in Ecuador. BluForest announced last week that it had signed a letter of intent with Global Fuel Limited for the pre-purchase of carbon credits.

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