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Ecuador to Lift Protection of Yasuni Park, Allow for Oil Drilling
2013-08-16 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Environmental activists are protesting the government of Ecuador's decision to allow for oil exploration in a previously protected portion of the Yasuni National Park. The nearly 4,000 square mile park in the Amazon rainforest has been a site of oil exploration since the 1970s, but a portion of the park's core has since been untouched. Criticism of the move to explore for oil in the previously protected area is not unfounded -- Yasuni National Park is perhaps the most biologically diverse area...
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