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Ecuador: A Model Of Green Enterprise

Ecuador: A Model Of Green Enterprise

1 July 2009

Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador in South America has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rain forest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of those people are finding a way to balance development and conservation.

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News & Features / Features / 21st Century
Subject Topical
DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
WILDLIFE
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TROPICAL FORESTS
MAMS Id
21C3101
Parent Id
21C3100

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Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador in South America has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rain forest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of those people are finding a way to balance development and conservation.

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