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Yasuní National Park

national park, Ecuador

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Amazon Rainforest

  • the Amazon Rainforest
    In Amazon Rainforest

    …its borders, which lies in Yasuní National Park (established 1979), one of the world’s most biodiverse regions: the Ecuadoran government agreed to forgo development of heavy oil deposits (worth an estimated \$7.2 billion) beneath the Yasuní rainforest if other countries and private donors contributed half of the deposits’ value to…

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Correa

  • Rafael Correa
    In Rafael Correa: Presidency

    …to develop oil deposits in Yasuní National Park at the same time that Correa had been requesting that foreign donors contribute \$3.6 billion to a fund in exchange for preventing oil drilling in the park. In May, after election officials rejected a petition for a national referendum on the matter…

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