One year after Ecuadorians voted on a referendum in favor of halting oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, the government has not made significant progress on the next steps for protecting this extraordinary place.
Last August, after the historic referendum, the country’s Constitutional Court gave the government and the state-owned oil company Petroecuador one year to close the 43-ITT oil block. Yet the Ecuadorian government has not made much progress in doing so.
Yasuní National Park is among the most biodiverse places on the planet. Sheltered under its lush canopies live Indigenous communities, like the Waorani and Kichwa, who hold ancestral rights to the land, have a deep connection to nature, and champion biodiversity. Yasuní also shelters some of the last Indigenous tribes in voluntary isolation—the Tagaeri, Taromenane, and Dugakaeri.
Join rewild and local partners in encouraging the Ecuadorian government to finally decommission the 43-ITT oil block and
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