Latest on the Yasuni Initiative
by Jess Worth, New Internationalist Blog, UK - Last year, the NI got involved with the campaign to save the Yasuní rainforest - a remarkably biodiverse area of the pristine Ecuadorian Amazon that is perilously perched atop 850 million barrels of oil. One year on, the Ecuadorian Government's plan has taken a more tangible form. In October I met Yolanda Kakabadse, a warm and friendly woman who is a member of the Presidential Commission on Yasuní, to try to get some answers.

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