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Ecuador expected to open Amazon's Yasuni basin to oil drilling -sources

2013-08-15 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Ecuador is expected to open part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling on Thursday after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, government sources said. In 2007 Ecuador's President Rafael Correa launched an initiative to protect the Yasuni area of the Amazon basin, which boasts one of the planet's richest ranges of wildlife. However, the sources said that decision has been reversed and an announcement on the plan's future...

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