"The current government’s announcement to keep the crude oil beneath the ITT petrol fields in the Yasuní Park territory was received in Ecuador with both hope and happiness. It is an offer supported by progressive representatives who have worked in the country for years in the hope of achieving a political impact, to link the aspirations of those of us who construct spaces of peaceful resistance in defence of the environment and social and economic rights of all the peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, from our own day to day coexistence with the terrible consequences of the exploitation of oil.
There are many arguments in favour of the maintenance of the oil in the Yasuní Park below the ground. If we achieve this, not only will we conserve an enormously diverse area, home to the Tagaeri and the Taromenane, but also we will become a universal symbol that a new world is possible. It really is. The success of the defense of the Yasuní will be a milestone in overcoming the challenge which humanity has in thwarting the effects of climate change.
It is very difficult for a government to maintain a conservation proposal of this magnitude. Great contradictions have already been emphasized, like the promotion of the multimodal corridor between Manta and Manaos, which could convert the river Napo into a motorway for flatboats and container ships destined for trade between Brazil and China, only a few kilometers away from the Yasuní Park".
This book which we present to you with the wonders and complexities of our territory, and is born from the support of many representatives from around the world, is like the point of the end of a palm leaf, which began its journey without return, sure of achieving its objective. We believe in the value of this dream which we all share in order to maintain the Yasuní Green Gold.
Anita Carolina Rivas Párraga
Mayor, "Municipio de Francisco de Orellana". Ecuador.
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