In Ecuador the government decides to extract petroleum from the Yasuni, a place with one of the biggest biodiversity in the world who is a natural reserve and intangible zone, a territory of an ancestral indigenous uncontacted population.
It's definitively a great loss to conservation, but at the same time it will create a great challenge and opportunities for environmental management and ecological restoration of tropical rainforests
It is a pity that this exploitation will occur - but it was foreseeable. As the international community prove that it is no such a thing as a community and denied participating in the guarantee-plan of the government, I think Correa did not have a choice but to end the project of preservation. For sure, a big part of the responsibility for the lack of support goes to the German government and the minister of development Dirk Niebel who did not want to "give a bad example to other third-world-countries" - that is that preservation could be a way.
Now we have to see what will happen - both to the indigenous populations and their territories and to nature. I think Yasuní ITT is also a symbol for the environmentalist opposition, so there will be a lot of mobilization - as already happened in the last weeks.
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