Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Planet Killers versus the Rest of US - Who'll Win?

clipped from blogs.nature.com
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, it's biodiversity versus oil

A biodiversity assessment published today in the online journal PLoS ONE tries to bolster the case for protecting Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, even as the government's proposal for doing so has hit its rockiest stretch.

Foreign Minister Fander Falconi and other officials working on the project have resigned in protest. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal quoted Correa indicating that he plans to appoint a new team and continue with the initiative, but how that might affect existing negotiations with potential donor countries is unclear.

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