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Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before Lima protest
2014-12-07 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to climate talks in Lima. The killing highlights the violence and harassment facing environmental activists in Ecuador, following the confiscation earlier this week of a bus carrying climate campaigners who planned to denounce president Rafael Correa at the United Nations conference. The victim, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a former vice-president...
How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up big oil and won
2014-12-05 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Standing before a packed audience of 2,000 spectators, Patricia Gualinga Montalvo calmly addressed the crowd, sharing the story of her people. The Sarayaku, a Kichwa indigenous people numbering 1,200 from the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a historic court case in 2012. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the government of Ecuador must publicly apologize, consult with, and recompense the Sarayaku for allowing oil exploration by Argentine Compaia General de Combustibles on their territory...
Green activists Ecuador harassed by police on way climate summit
2014-12-04 00:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of Ecuadorian environmental activists travelling to the UN Climate Change conference in neighbouring Peru were stopped and harassed at least six times by police who eventually seized their bus, members of the group have told the Guardian. The activists claim that they have been obstructed because the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa wants to avoid potentially embarrassing protests at the climate conference over his plan to drill for oil in Yasuni, an Amazon reserve and one of the most...
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No Further PED Detected in Ecuador
2014-10-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ECUADOR - Since porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) hit one farm in July, monitoring and surveillance on that farm and elsewhere in the country has revealed no further signs of the virus.
'A remarkable conservation achievement': Ecuador reserve expanded as forest disappears
2014-10-09 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A strip of rainforest running along the northwestern Ecuadorian coast and up through Colombia is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Yet, less than 10 percent of Ecuadors portion remains intact, with more forest lost every year to human development. But word came Oct. 7 that a little more has been saved for now, with a 500-hectare expansion of the Río Canandé Reserve. The Chocó Biogeographical Region spans 100,000 square kilometers (38,000 square miles) in western Colombia and northwestern...
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