The Role BMW May Play in Creating a World-Class Environmental Disaster in Ecuador
There is a rush these days to gain access to copper deposit and other key minerals driven by the expected increase in electric vehicle usage world wide.. That may sound like good news for the composition of the atmosphere, but it will spell doom to other parts of the biosphere, including its biodiviersity, forests, rivers, as well as trampling human rights.
Read MoreCodelco’s Llurimagua Project in real trouble
Contraloría ecuatoriana cuestiona proyecto de Codelco en ese país y arriesga suspensión Borrador de esa institución advierte que habría faltas como la ausencia del detalle del plan de inversiones, así como explicitar el modelo de negocios detrás de la iniciativa. Publicado el 29 de enero del 2019 C (El Mercurio) Una nueva dificultad tendrá que enfrentar Codelco […]
Read MoreWelcome to investing in Ecuador!: Intag, Codelco and the Numbers Game
Intag, Codelco and the Numbers Game. Welcome to mining investment in Ecuador Biodiversity in danger Now, I’m not saying this is another BRE-X, but, well, read and decide for yourself. First, after years of drilling in the 1990s, a Mitsubishi subsidiary “inferred” the existence of 450,000 tons of pure copper in a 76-million-ton ore body […]
Read MoreLa DECOIN ante los resultados de la Consulta y Referendum del 4 de febrero
El cuatro de febrero concluyó el proceso electoral en el cual los ecuatorianos se pronuciaron sobre siete preguntas trascendentales. Aunque no se le preguntó al pueblo sobre el correísmo, no cabe duda que existía una octava pregunta: Rechaza Usted el correísmo en todas sus manifestaciones? El resultado no pudo ser más claro y contundente: un […]
Read MoreLea, firma y comparta la petición: Sign read and SHARE the petition- Intag and other areas depend on its success.. #SalvemosLosAndes Ecuatorianos Petición para Señor Presidente Lenin Moreno #SalvemosLosAndes Ecuatorianos EcuadorEndangered / Ecuador en Peligro Durante 2016 y 2017, el gobierno ecuatoriano otorgó concesiones mineras a multinacionales extranjeras por sobre 2.9 millones de hectáreas […]
Read MorePearls Before Swine: The Apalling Cost of Ecuador’s Extractivist Agenda
Pearls Before Swine: The Apalling Cost of Ecuador’s Extractivist Agenda* Where are the voices of the international community in preventing this […]
Read MoreEl País Concesionado-
Las ahora (01-2018) casi 4 millones de hectáreas abarcan a: 750 mil hectáreas de no menos de 39 Bosques Protectores UN MILLÓN de hectáreas de Territorios Indígenas Mas de mil centros poblados, comunidades, y comunas Incontables fuentes de agua, nacimientos de cientos de ríos, bosques primarios y paramos Mapa cortesía de William Sacher Sacher, William, […]
Read MoreDecoin’s Work, 2017
DEFENSA Y CONSERVACIÓN ECOLOGICA DE INTAG DECOIN’S WORK, 2017 The biggest, coolest most current news is being honored by the United Nations Equator Initiative to receive its 2017 Equator Prize. We were one of 15 organizations chosen from 800 that competed from all over the world for the prestigious prize. The award is awarded every two years for organizations […]
Read MoreDECOIN Wins Presitigious United Nations Prize
We are pleased- no, make that ECSTATIC– to announce that the UN Development Programme has chosen DECOIN as one of 15 winners of this year’s Equator Iniciative. The award is a recognition of our conservation work with the communities of Intag during these past twenty-two and a half years. The work, needless to say, would have […]
Read MorePress Release (SPANISH BELOW) ‘Extinct’ frog rediscovered within Ecuadorian mining concession The rare Longnose Harlequin Frog was found in a habitat under imminent threat A species of frog believed to have been extinct was rediscovered in a community reserve of Northwest Ecuador. The Longnose Harlequin Frog (image below) was found within a copper mining concession near […]
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