UPDATE, 1/20/07, via Ecological Internet:

“Save America’s Forests” reports on a stunning partial victory in the international campaign to end oil exploration and production in the world’s “protected” rainforests, in this case in Ecuador. Many key demands in Ecological Internet’s longstanding campaign below have been met, including greater protection for indigeneous peoples and protected rainforests from oil and logging. Please choose to send the updated alert below, a congratulatory email that asks for the designation to be expanded to all of Yasuni and other Ecuador protected areas.

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Via Rainforest Portal / Ecological Internet:

Action Alert: Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park

In two separate letters delivered to the Ecuadorian government, a group of over 40 Yasuni scientists (known as the Scientists Concerned for Yasuni) and 6 international NGOs have criticized Petrobras’ new Environmental Impact Study (EIS) of their new “roadless” plan to build oil production facilities in Ecuador’s world class Yasuní National Park. Although both letters praise Ecuador for stopping Petrobras from building an access road into Yasuni National Park, they emphasize that the new project design (construction and operation of 2 drilling platforms, flow lines, a processing facility and pipeline) will cause major impacts to the region’s biodiversity and indigenous peoples. […]

The Ecuadorian government must be urged to NOT approve the study and to cancel the project, as oil exploration and protected area status are simply incompatible.

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