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- UN calls Moreno’s bluff: Indigenous rights ‘invisible’ as Ecuador pushes mining, oil projects.“AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN” 14/12/2018 UN special rapporteur on rights of indigenous people Victoria Tauli-Corpuz presents results after a ten-day visit to Ecuador, at a hotel in Quito, on Nov 29, 2018. PHOTO: AFP QUITO (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – Excluding indigenous Ecuadoreans from the country’s development plans has made their rights “invisible”, a UN exp […]
- Once thought extinct, bizarre horned frog reappears in Ecuador“AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN” 12/12/2018 The horned marsupial frog (Gastrotheca cornuta) is a nocturnal amphibian that lives high in the canopy of well-preserved tropical rainforests. Unseen for more than a decade, the enigmatic and endangered horned marsupial frog has reappeared in an Ecuadorian forest, to biologists’ delight. The frog’s looks are striking: It […]
- Catastrophic Oil Spill in Peru Pits State Energy Company Against Local Amazon Indigenous Community“AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN” 12/12/2018 Aerial photo of the Nanay River in the Peruvian AmazonPhoto: AP Last week, at least 8,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the northern Amazon rainforest in Peru, creating one of the worst spills the region has seen in years. State oil company Petroperú is blaming a local indigenous […]
- Finally Something positive:Green Peace pressure denies oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef“AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN” 12/12/2018 Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef One of the first images of the Amazon Reef taken from a submarine launched from the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza. Photo: © Greenpeace. Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, Ibama, announced last Friday that it was denying […] […]
- Tackle climate or face financial crash, say world’s biggest investors“AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN” 10/12/2018 Global investors managing $32tn are urging governments to phase out all coal burning. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Global investors managing $32tn issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning. Witho […]
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