Ecuador: First of 200 wells drilled close to controversial block of forest known to have two of the last tribes living in isolation

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Ecuador drills for oil on edge of pristine rainforest in Yasuni

First of 200 wells drilled close to controversial block of forest known to have two of the last tribes living in isolation

Tiputini river and rainforest in Yasuni national park in Ecuador’s Amazon forest. Oil companies are given permit to drill for 920m barrels of crude believed to be beneath the forest floor. Photograph: Pete Oxford/Corbis

John Vidal

Monday 4 April 2016 17.40 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/04/ecuador-drills-for-oil-on-edge-of-pristine-rainforest-in-yasuni?CMP=share_btn_fb#_=_

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4. April um 20:26 ·

Ecuador has started drilling for oil on the edge of a controversial block of pristine rainforest inhabited by two of the last tribes in the world living in voluntary isolation:

http://www.theguardian.com/…/ecuador-drills-for-oil-on-edge…