PhoenixSerenity#TerramazProject seeks to promote #sustainable practices in order to fight #deforestation . These ideas, however, do not resonate with some inhabitants.... where there is #UrgentNeed for basic infrastructure/services: 82% of #Indigenous there live in extreme #poverty
#Undefined status of the western limits of the #YasuníNationalPark & lack of #LandTitles for #native inhabitants have provoked #conflicts - affected by #oil drilling.
Ecuador project aims to protect Yasuní park borders & Indigenous peoples
*This report was carried out as part of a journalistic partnership between Mongabay Latam and La Barra Espaciadora de Ecuador. On Aug. 10, 2009, in the community of Los Reyes, Sandra Zabala, a local farmer, and two of her sons, Byron and Damaris Duche, were attacked with spears by people who were later identified as members […]