Description about yasuni

1. CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
ENGLISH
Freddy Endara

4. • Most bio-diverse places in the world
• Zone that did not freeze during the last
ice-age.

5. • The forest accommodates the largest number of
species of trees per hectare in the world.

6. • World's richest avian sites.

7. • 200 species of mamals

9. • 62 species of snakes

10. • 150 species of anphibians

11. • 100 millions species of insects

12. • In 1989 UNESCO declared the park a Bio-
reserve and Cultural Heritage site

13. • 'Untouchable Zone'

15. WAORANI
• Curaray and Napo rivers.

16. Tagaeri and Taromenane
• Voluntary isolation

17. Shuar
• Famous, or infamous, for tzantza
• WAKANI.
• ARUTAM.
• MUISAK.

18. kichwa
• Called themselves Naporunas

20. • Until 1958 the Waorani in
particular had fought
hard.
• Two main indigenous
groups - the Tagaeri and
Taromenane.
• A 420km pipeline was
built right across the
Andes.
• In 1999 the
Constitutional court.
• Southern part of the
Yasuní was declared an
'untouchable zone‘.

21. EFFECTS OF THE OIL INDUSTRY ON
THE AMAZON
• Environmental impacts
• Cultural impacts
• Political impacts
• Social impacts
• Economic impacts

22. • Ishpingo-Tambococha-
Tiputini
• 412 million and a possible
846 million barrels of oil..
• 1 barrel of oil there can be
10 barrels of waste.

23. • 846 millions barrels of crude (20%).
• 407 millions metric tons of carbon.
• Produces 4 barrels of water for each
barrel of oil.

24. Benefits
• Non CO2 emition about 407 metric ton
• Non explotation
• The conservation (39 additional parks).

25. • Reforestation of a 1’000.000
hectares.

26. • Country’s transition from an
extractive economy .
– Use of renewable energy sources.

27. – Respect for diversity
– Increased social equity.

28. CERTIFICATE OF GUARANTEE (CGY´S)
• Financial instrument .
• All income will be deposited in an
international trust fund.

29. • Contributions of countries from all over
the world.

30. CONCLUSIONS
• The proposal will help to keep and preserve this unique and
most bio-diverse places in the world.
• Non emission into the atmospheres of 407 millions of tons
of CO2
• Guarantee non exploitation of petroleum reserves.
• The conservation of this immense biological richness, along
with the conservation of 39 additional parks.
• Respect for the cultures of the indigenous tribes, who live
in isolation.
• Reforestation of 1’000.000 hectares.
• A decisive impulse to the country’s transition from an
extractive economy based on petroleum exploitation,
towards a more sustainable development model:
– Use of renewable energy sources. Hydroelectric,
geothermal and solar power.
– Respect for diversity
– Increased social equity.

31. VOCABULARY
• Watershed:
• Proposal:
• Spans:
• Pledge:
• Bats:
• Mining:
• Logging:
• Tamper:
• Foragers:
• Boundaries:
• Fled:
• Shrinking:
• re-drawn:
• revenue:
• embodied:
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