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- Keep off our land, Amazon indigenous women tell Ecuador’s presidentTHE AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 30/03/2018 Women’s movement demand an end to unrestricted oil drilling and mining on indigenous lands and action on violence against land defenders in first meeting with president Lenin Moreno Amazon indigenous women leaders have told Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno to limit oil drilling and mining in their territories and combat the […]
- Is President Moreno Betraying the Amazon ? – Yes according to ” Digging Into Ecuador’s Undiscovered Oil Potential” & Extractivist LobbyAMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 A rig drills in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ecuador is seeking investment in its oil and gas sector. (Source: Shutterstock.com) Ecuador is not typically the place people think of for booming oil production. Its output has remained stable over the past 10 years due to relatively stagnant exploration activity. But […]
- Found: The First Known Hybrid Bird Species in the Amazon Rain ForestAMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 The golden-crowned manakin is the only known hybrid species in the Amazon. Resistance to crossing rivers gave it the space to evolve into something new. The golden-crowned manakin, a rare tropical bird with a green mantle and bright yellow feathers that would look right at home in a […]
- From the Amazon, Francis decries policies that ‘strangle’ indigenous Communities.AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 Members of an indigenous group from the Amazon region during a Jan. 19 meeting at Madre de Dios stadium in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. (CNS/Paul Haring) Puerto Maldonado, Peru — Pope Francis stood among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest Jan. 19 to criticize the ramp-up of the global extraction […]
- Alberto Acosta: ” Extractive Economics to continue”: New round of oil drilling goes deeper into Ecuador’s Yasuní national parkAMAZON PINK DOLPHIN: 11/01/2018 State oil company starts second phase of drilling in one of the world’s most biodiverse hotspots A flame flares at the oil production facility on the border of the Yasuní national park in Ecuador. Photograph: Georg Ismar/Alamy Ecuador’s state oil company has begun drilling the first of 97 […]
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