Fw: RAINFORESTS ALERT: Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

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ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Oppose Oil Production in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

 

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

http://www.RainforestPortal.org/

November 8, 2006

 

TAKE ACTION

After an earlier successful campaign to halt oil road

construction, the message must still be sent that oil extraction

and protected areas do not mix

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=ecuador

 

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. A massive new

processing facility would be constructed on the alluvial plain

of the world renowned Tiputini River. Sixteen hectares of

mature, inundated forests along the Tiputini would have to be

cleared and drained, completely destroying the habitat. And the

rainforest surrounding the proposed sites for the two drilling

platforms is home to large mammal species considered indicators

of high quality rainforest, such as tapir, giant armadillo,

giant anteater, and large monkey species. The Waorani

representative organizations were never consulted about the

project, nor did they grant consent for activities on their

ancestral territory. 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.

Tell them by taking action now:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=ecuador

 

 

 

Notes: After sending this alert please choose to send a follow-

up email regarding rainforest fires in Indonesia. When you do,

it is likely you will receive many out of office messages which

you can disregard. The emails targeted are the main contact

points for the Kyoto meeting's representatives and they ARE

being monitored while their government's focal points meet in

Nairobi.

 

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