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Oriente, Ecuador
opportunities
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trees
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can be burnt down using "slash and burn", the ash collected is very fertile
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oil reserves
President Correa gave the green light for the state oil company Petroamazonas to extract oil in Yasuni National park. He did this because he'll use the money generated from this to fund welfare services and education programmes for the poor.
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farms
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the trees are cut down to make way for Soy Bean farms, the beans are used as cattle feed
threats
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loggers
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they use techniques like "slash and burn" which is cheaper then using machinery to take down forests, this results in large ash piles full of nutrition to grow crops
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oil wells
A natural resource that is very profitable, President Correa funded an oil company to drill for oil in the Yasuni National Park, the drilling of oil there raised about US$22 billion
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poachers
hunt rare animals for sport and to sell on the black market, e.g. Jaguars, Caymans, Tapir, etc
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Location
South America
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Ecuador
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Climate:
temperature
On average for most of the year the average temperature is 25C, only dropping to 24C during the Winter(our summer)
rainfall:
It tends to rain more during the Winter months with at most 366mm of rain in April and the minimum amount of rain all year is 214mm in January
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upper Amazon basin
tropical rainforest
diverse, full of many ecosystems
flora
home to 25,000 species of plants
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conservation
Yasuni National Park
The drilling for oil in the Yasuni National Park which was taking place in less than 1% of the park was stopped by the people, there was a national vote on whether it should continue, 59% voted for it to be stopped.
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