Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park

March 2023 /

Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuni national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.

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Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling
in biodiverse Amazonian national park

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Protected: MAATE fails to comply with the ruling on the titling of Siekopai territory, violating the Ecuadorian Constitution and multiple international instruments.

Protected: Return to Pë’këya, the Heart of the Siekopai Nation

Ecuador will never have Indigenous consent to plunder the Amazon

In Ecuador’s Amazon, scant progress after landmark oil vote

Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again.

‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

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