What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond

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Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Last year, headlines all over the world proclaimed victory for the environment: finally, after more than a decade of promises, there would be no more drilling in Yasuní National Park, a large swath of the Ecuadorian Amazon. But as Macy Lipkin reports, all wasn't what it seemed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.2	Earthbreeze.com slash drilled free. Welcome to Northeast Ecuador, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
1:12.0	Kelly Swing founded most biodiverse places on Earth.
1:13.8	Kelly Swing founded Tipputini Biodiversity Station here in the 1990s.
1:19.2	He'd be the first to tell you how special this region is.
1:22.7	Yasuni National Park is right across the river.
1:25.4	A hectare of rainforest in Yasuni has probably around or maybe even over 600 species of trees per hectare.
1:39.0	In the US, if you're in a mature forest in the eastern part of the country, you could walk an entire morning and maybe not see 10 species of trees.
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