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Ecuador: Voters decide to stop oil extraction in Yasuni National Park

Added 2023-08-21

Description

The decision, if fully implemented, will be a major victory for indigenous people and biodiversity and also safeguard the uncontacted tribes of the Tagaeri, Taromenane and Dugakaeri living in the border between Ecuador and Peru. It is also a defeat for outgoing president Guillermo Lasso. Yasuni was designated a Unesco World Biosphere Reserve in 1989.

Location

Ecuador
Yasuni National Park