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The Yasuní
National Park: Dangers of Oil Production in the ITT Block
- The waste left behind from oil
production in the ITT block will contaminate waterways in the Yasuní and
have the potential to affect a much larger area of protected lands within
its floodplain.
- The
Yasuní
Park
is a zone of lagoons, bogs and rivers. It comprises important basins of the
Napo
, Yasuní, Tiputini, Nashiño and Cononaco Rivers, as well as various
tributaries of the Curaray.
- The
Yasuní was named a national park on November 20, 1979, and subsequently
recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve in 1989. In 1999, the
southern zone of the park was declared an intangible zone to assure the
survival of the communities in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri-Taromenane.
- In
the north is the Cuyabeno
Reserve and the intangible zone of
Imuya, both zones equally within the flood plain of the Yasuní.
- Blocks
31 and 43 (ITT) make
up the natural corridor that connects the intangible zones to the south of
the Yasuní and the Cuyabeno.
The area we are
talking about:
The Yasuní contains 982,000 hectares
of land
The intangible area to the south of Yasuní contains 700,000 hectares
Cuyabeno
contains 603,380 hectares
The intangible zone of
Cuyabeno contains 435.500 hectares
How
you can help:
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national park
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