We studied the diversity, biogeography and floristic relationships of the epiphytic flora of the Yasuní region (Western Amazonia) in a Neotropical context, ... Nabe-Nielsen, J. (2001) Diversity and ...

Peter Sonnenberg 02/03/2014 February 3, 2014. The Yasuni rainforest boasts one of the largest varieties of flora and fauna in the world. But the region's resource that most interests the ...

However, in his televised speech of August 15, 2013, President Rafael Correa officially confirmed the termination of the Yasuni-ITT initiative, stating; "El mundo nos ha fallado" "the world has let us ...

When officially proposed in 2007, the Yasuni-ITT program was a world first: Ecuador stated it would not drill for oil in three remote blocs of Yasuni if the world community paid them $3.6 billion ...

In Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park—comprising 982,000 hectares of what the researchers call “one of the most species diverse forests in the world”—the presence of an oil company has ...

The images in the gallery above are all species that call Yasuni National Park their home, and represent a tiny selection of the biodiversity found there. Yasuní provides a pristine habitat for record ...

Deep in the heart of Ecuador's Amazon basin, in the shadows of the Andes and below the equator, lies what may be the most biologically diverse place on the planet. Yasuní National Park in eastern ...

Nicolas Entel, an Argentinean-born director of "Sins of My Father", explores environmental issues affecting indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon in his latest documentary "Yasuni ...

Ecuador's top electoral court has opened up a route for a referendum to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, an environmental group said on Wednesday, a move which could disrupt ...

The Yasuni National Park is one of the most biodiverse locations in the world: home to 596 species of birds, 2,274 species of trees and bushes, more than 382 species of freshwater fish, at least ...

Ecuadorians voted on Sunday to stop an oil-drilling project in the Yasuni region of the Amazon with 59% voting yes on a proposition that will end the practice. Ecuador’s government estimates ...