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.
Ecuador has a shocking history of human and ecological devastation caused by oil extraction. So when we heard that Ecuador’s President Correa had challenged the international community to pay his country to leave the oil in the ground, we were both thrilled by his audacity and concerned as to how this might pan out in practice.
