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Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 28-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 22,230 on turnover of $5-billion N-T. The market grounded on Thursday, as investors reacted to Wall Street trending lower overnight, as Nvidia's stock price fell 2.1-per cent, despite the company reporting strong profit. Carbon Fee Collection to Start in 2026 The Ministry of Environment says carbon fees will begin to collected in 2026. According to the ministry, the government will use next year a preparation window for the plan, during which only reporting of emission amounts for the previous year will be required. The statement comes after the regulations for carbon fee collection and how fee-liable (需要付費的) enterprises can qualify for preferential rates by achieving certain emission reduction targets were made public. Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming is calling the plan a milestone signifying Taiwan "has entered the era of carbon pricing." The regulations will oversee how carbon fees are collected, management of fee-liable enterprises' reduction projects, and standards determining whether the reduction projects undertaken by the enterprises qualify them for preferential carbon fee rates. The environment minister says carbon fee scheme will cover those companies that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, which covers 281 enterprises based on data from 2022. Israel Hamas Agree to Pause for Polio Vaccination The United Nations says an agreement has been reached for limited pauses in fighting to allow for the polio vaccination drive (大規模疫苗接種活動) to take place in Gaza. The Israeli military and Hamas have agreed to three-day pauses as hundreds of children need to receive the vaccine after a baby contracted the first confirmed polio case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory. Jody Jacobs reports from the United Nations… Thailand Indicts Police in Red Bull Heir Case Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a former national police chief in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 crash involving an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune that killed a police officer. The former police chief, along with a former deputy attorney general and six other people were arraigned (提審) Thursday on charges alleging they conspired to alter the recorded speed of the Ferrari driven by Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya to help him evade a speeding charge. Police have said Vorayuth smashed his Ferrari into the police officer's motorbike on a major Bangkok road in 2012. Vorayuth fled abroad, where he remains. Ecuador Begins Dismantling Oil Drilling Block in National Park Ecuador says it has begun to dismantle infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, home to the Waorani Indigenous people. After a historic referendum last year that favored keeping oil in the ground in Yasuni, the country's top court ordered the government to halt operations and remove wells by Aug. 30. Last week, the government asked the court for an extension of five years and five months to complete the task. The drilling block is in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ending oil drilling at the 43-ITT oil block could cost $1.3 billion, according to government estimates. Oil accounts for nearly one-third of Ecuador's GDP, and its economy is struggling to meet its domestic debt obligations (義務). That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 中路特區指標建築『百俊吾双』 60米大興西路，27層雙塔地標，600坪泳池花園，壯闊落成 42至52坪戶戶挑高3米4大氣尺度，即可入住！ 實品屋全新完工，敬邀名家鑑賞 預約專線：03-3311688 https://bit.ly/4dCXCbE

Alors que les bandes armées continuent de terroriser les populations des quartiers de Port-au-Prince, comme à Solino, le gouvernement de transition décide de prolonger et d'étendre l'état d'urgence dans plusieurs départements d'Haïti. Une mesure qui, depuis son instauration mi-juillet, n'a pas permis d'enrayer la violence des gangs. Instauré le 17 juillet 2024, l'état d'urgence sécuritaire était renouvelé pour un mois, selon un communiqué du ministère de la Justice et de la Sécurité publique publié le 19 août 2024. Selon le communiqué, cette mesure, note le quotidien Le Nouvelliste, a été prise « dans le but de faciliter le rétablissement de l'ordre public, la paix sociale et la sécurité ». L'état d'urgence concerne les départements de l'Artibonite et de l'Ouest, comme c'était le cas en juillet, mais aussi les départements du Centre, des Nippes et les arrondissements de Plaisance et de Limbé. « Coïncidence ou simple hasard », relève Frantz Duval dans son éditorial du Nouvelliste « des résidents de Solino manifestaient (lundi 19 août 2024) pour réclamer un appui des forces de l'ordre pour pouvoir défendre leur quartier attaqué par des gangs depuis des jours ». Solino qui est venu s'ajouter à la liste qui renferme « Ganthier, Gressier, Carrefour, Cabaret et autres localités qui, ces derniers temps, ont été attaqués par les gangs alors que le pays vit sous le régime de l'état d'urgence sécuritaire qui renforce les pouvoirs des forces de l'ordre », note l'éditorialiste. Dimanche 18 août 2024, rappelle le site d'AlterPresse, plusieurs maisons ont été incendiées lors d'une nouvelle attaque contre le quartier de Solino par des bandits armés de l'organisation criminelle « Vivre Ensemble ».Les habitants de plusieurs communes haïtiennes obligés de fuirLes habitants des communes de Ganthier et Fonds Parisien, dans le départ de l'ouest, subissent elles aussi la fureur des gangs, comme le dénonce le CADDHO, le Collectif des avocats pour la défense des droits de l'homme. Notre invité, Arnel Remy, coordinateur général du CADDHO et avocat au Barreau de Port-au-Prince rapportent que « les habitants sont obligés de fuir » face aux bandes criminelles, situation dont profitent les bandits « pour pénétrer dans les maisons et piller ». C'est le « cahos total, l'anarchie, tout est sous le contrôle de ces bandits » dénonce-t-il, déplorant l'inaction des policiers kenyans déployés en Haïti dans le cadre de la mission multinationale d'appui à la sécurité. « Ce sont des touristes », enrage Arnel Remy. À Chicago, coup d'envoi de la convention démocrateIls étaient des milliers hier, lundi 19 août 2024, à Chicago, aux États-Unis, pour applaudir les pontes du parti démocrate à l'occasion de la convention du parti pour investir officiellement Kamala Harris dans la course à la présidentielle américaine. La famille démocrate qui a rendu un hommage appuyé au président Joe Biden qui s'est retiré de la course à la Maison Blanche. Le dirigeant démocrate de 81 ans a reçu une ovation assourdissante de plus de quatre minutes lors de sa prise de parole, comme le point final d'une carrière de plus de 50 ans. Après ce vibrant hommage, les démocrates vont couronner ce mardi Kamala Harris, avec Barack et Michelle Obama en invités de marque.À écouter aussiÉtats-Unis: Joe Biden passe le relais à Kamala Harris à la convention démocrate à Chicago Vers une nouvelle vague de migrations au Venezuela ?Au Venezuela, près d'un mois après la réélection contestée de Nicolas Maduro, le candidat de l'opposition Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, qui revendique la victoire à la présidentielle du 28 juillet s'est dit «prêt au dialogue» en vue d'une «transition» en demandant au sortant, de se «mettre de côté».  C'est dans ce contexte que le Parlement du pays, où le pouvoir dispose de pratiquement tous les sièges, examine ce 20 août, un projet de loi contre le fascisme. Officiellement, il s'agit de mieux défendre le peuple, mais de nombreux observateurs y voient des mesures liberticides destinées à réprimer. Une situation politique qui fait craindre le pire pour les habitants. En 15 ans, ce sont plus de 7 millions de personnes qui ont fui leur pays pour espérer trouver un futur meilleur à l'étranger. Et ce chiffre pourrait encore augmenter. Notre correspondante à Caracas, Alice Campaignolle, a rencontré plusieurs habitants qui pensent au départ. « J'ai pensé à l'Espagne, pour la langue évidemment, mais il y a beaucoup de Vénézuéliens là-bas. Donc j'ai pensé à l'Allemagne. Demander un visa étudiant, apprendre la langue et puis chercher un travail comme ingénieur », raconte par exemple Georgina, âgée de 29 ans.À lire aussiVenezuela: l'opposition appelle Maduro à se «mettre de côté», alors que Caracas prépare une «loi contre le fascisme» L'Équateur, un an après le référendumC'était il y a un an, en Équateur, un référendum inédit : près de 59% des électeurs avaient voté pour le démantèlement des puits de pétrole situés dans le parc naturel amazonien du Yasuni, connu pour son extraordinaire biodiversité. Pourtant, un an plus tard, les puits de pétrole des trois gisements du parc Yasuni sont toujours en fonctionnement. Ils fournissent environ 4 millions de dollars par jour de recettes. Dans un pays sous perfusion du FMI, les gouvernements successifs ont tout fait pour préserver cette manne pétrolière. En mai 2024, le président Daniel Noboa a tout de même instauré une commission pour mettre en œuvre le démantèlement des installations pétrolières. Dossier signé Raphaël MoraniÀ lire aussiEquateur: la sécurité, axe majeur du référendum voulu par le président Noboa Le journal de la 1ère Retour sur cette étude démontrant un lien de causalité entre exposition au chlordécone et pathologies cardiaques.À écouter aussiLa «responsabilité» de l'État reconnue dans le scandale du chlordécone aux Antilles: «On se réjouit mais ce n'est pas suffisant»

Decisiones - Moratoria al Cierre del Yasuni ITT - 26 Enero 2024 by FM Mundo 98.1

Yes to Yasuni - an episode of Rising Clyde with host Iain Bruce This year the people of Ecuador struck a major blow for climate justice, by voting to leave the oil in the soil beneath the Yasuní National Park. We talk to one of the people who made that victory possible, Leonidas Iza, president of the main Indigenous organisation, CONAIE, who visited Scotland in July to promote the Yasuni campaign.  He discusses the challenges ahead, the need to link up with other anti-mining and anti-extractive struggles, and the lessons for climate justice globally. The Scottish Independence Podcasts team produce a NEW podcast episode every Friday search for Scottish Independence Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts.  Remember to like and subscribe! Contact Us: indypodcasters@gmail.com  Visit our website https://scottishindypod.scot for blogposts, newsletter signup and more episodes Subscribe to our Youtube channel @scottishindypodExtra for more of our video footage and clips

L'exploitation des ressources naturelles en Amazonie met en danger les populations locales, directement impactées, mais aussi la planète entière, tant ce réservoir de la biodiversité, ce « poumon » vert, est essentiel. Les peuples autochtones tentent depuis toujours de résister à la déforestation et aux industries extractives et les affrontements avec les forces de l'ordre sont parfois violents, comme en 2009 dans le nord du Pérou où plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont trouvé la mort. Pour autant, les dynamiques sont complexes, et les habitants de l'Amazonie bénéficient aussi des retombées économiques de l'exploitation des ressources. Comment se mettent en place les interactions entre les habitants et les industries présentes sur place ? Comment ce « capitalisme au village » est-il produit mais aussi contesté au quotidien ? Avec :• Doris Buu-Sao, maîtresse de conférences en Science politique à l'Université de Lille. Autrice du livre Le capitalisme au village - Pétrole, État et luttes environnementales en Amazonie (CNRS Éditions, 2023)• Antoine Laurent, responsable du plaidoyer chez Reclaim finance, ONG dont l'objectif est de mettre la finance au service de la justice sociale et climatique. Un focus avec Eric Samson, correspondant de RFI à Quito, sur le référendum demandant l'arrêt de l'exploitation pétrolière dans la réserve amazonienne de Yasuni en Équateur. En fin d'émission, un témoignage de Twyla Edgi Masuzumi, jeune Gardienne de la Terre de la communauté Denée au Canada par Charlie Dupiot.  À 36 ans, Twyla Edgi Masuzumi est la gardienne de 10 000 kilomètres carrés de forêt. Elle vit au nord-ouest du Canada, à Fort Good Hope, à une vingtaine de kilomètres du Cercle arctique. Cette militante autochtone de la communauté Dénée veille à protéger la forêt, dans le cadre d'un programme financé par le gouvernement canadien. Elle est l'héroïne d'un documentaire diffusé sur la chaîne Arte, l'un des 5 épisodes d'une série appelée « Gardiens de la forêt » qui met en lumière plusieurs militants de peuples autochtones à travers le monde. Notre reporter Charlie Dupiot a rencontré Twyla Edgi Masuzumi à l'occasion de son passage à Paris pour la promotion du film : On peut voir Twyla Edgi Masuzumi dans le documentaire « Canada, la voie des ancêtres », qui est disponible sur le site arte.tv ! Vous pourrez également visionner les 4 autres épisodes de la série documentaire « Gardiens de la forêt ». Et il y a aussi le livre « Gardiens de la forêt, l'appel des peuples autochtones », livre publié aux éditions du Seuil et d'Arte.  Programmation musicale : ► Droit comme un arbre – Tryo et la caravane passe ►  My Shot - Armani Thobad.

L'exploitation des ressources naturelles en Amazonie met en danger les populations locales, directement impactées, mais aussi la planète entière, tant ce réservoir de la biodiversité, ce « poumon » vert, est essentiel. Les peuples autochtones tentent depuis toujours de résister à la déforestation et aux industries extractives et les affrontements avec les forces de l'ordre sont parfois violents, comme en 2009 dans le nord du Pérou où plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont trouvé la mort. Pour autant, les dynamiques sont complexes, et les habitants de l'Amazonie bénéficient aussi des retombées économiques de l'exploitation des ressources. Comment se mettent en place les interactions entre les habitants et les industries présentes sur place ? Comment ce « capitalisme au village » est-il produit mais aussi contesté au quotidien ? Avec :• Doris Buu-Sao, maîtresse de conférences en Science politique à l'Université de Lille. Autrice du livre Le capitalisme au village - Pétrole, État et luttes environnementales en Amazonie (CNRS Éditions, 2023)• Antoine Laurent, responsable du plaidoyer chez Reclaim finance, ONG dont l'objectif est de mettre la finance au service de la justice sociale et climatique. Un focus avec Eric Samson, correspondant de RFI à Quito, sur le référendum demandant l'arrêt de l'exploitation pétrolière dans la réserve amazonienne de Yasuni en Équateur. En fin d'émission, un témoignage de Twyla Edgi Masuzumi, jeune Gardienne de la Terre de la communauté Denée au Canada par Charlie Dupiot.  À 36 ans, Twyla Edgi Masuzumi est la gardienne de 10 000 kilomètres carrés de forêt. Elle vit au nord-ouest du Canada, à Fort Good Hope, à une vingtaine de kilomètres du Cercle arctique. Cette militante autochtone de la communauté Dénée veille à protéger la forêt, dans le cadre d'un programme financé par le gouvernement canadien. Elle est l'héroïne d'un documentaire diffusé sur la chaîne Arte, l'un des 5 épisodes d'une série appelée « Gardiens de la forêt » qui met en lumière plusieurs militants de peuples autochtones à travers le monde. Notre reporter Charlie Dupiot a rencontré Twyla Edgi Masuzumi à l'occasion de son passage à Paris pour la promotion du film : On peut voir Twyla Edgi Masuzumi dans le documentaire « Canada, la voie des ancêtres », qui est disponible sur le site arte.tv ! Vous pourrez également visionner les 4 autres épisodes de la série documentaire « Gardiens de la forêt ». Et il y a aussi le livre « Gardiens de la forêt, l'appel des peuples autochtones », livre publié aux éditions du Seuil et d'Arte.  Programmation musicale : ► Droit comme un arbre – Tryo et la caravane passe ►  My Shot - Armani Thobad.

In 2010, a $3.6billion fund was launched to stop oil drilling in the most biodiverse place on the planet: the Yasuni national park in Ecuador. The Yasuni covers 10,000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest and is home to thousands of species of plants and animals but underneath the soil lies another important resource - 20% of Ecuador's oil reserves. It was feared that any drilling would cause pollution, deforestation and soil erosion so in a pioneering deal – known as the Yasuni ITT iniatitive - rich nations were asked to pay Ecuador not to remove the oil. Chief negotiator Yvonne A-Baki was put in charge of raising funds from around the globe but securing money was not an easy task, as she tells Jane Wilkinson. (Photo: A brown woolly monkey in the Yasuni National Park. Credit: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP via Getty Images)

Waorani leader  Alicia Cahuiya standing next to a tree near her community marked to be cut down by Petroecuador, the company now banned from drilling in Yasuní National Park.Ecuador votes to keep oil in the soilOn August 20th fifty-eight per cent of Ecuadorians voted to stop all current and future drilling in three oil fields inside the Yasuni National Park and sixty-eight per cent voted to block mining in the Choco Andino Forest. Liz Downes, Coordinator of the Ecuador Endangered Campaign at the Rainforest Information Centre discusses the significance of these decisions, environmental democracy in Ecuador and the campaign to stop the drilling. https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/ecuador_endangered  MusicSong for the Forests of Yasuni by Indigenous activist and defender Alex LucitanteLluvia by Mateo Kingman, a singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian Amazonian music that fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop.  PhotoAlicia Cahuiya, a prominent Waorani leader and vice president of the women's branch of CONAIE (Ecuador's National Indigenous Federation). Photo provided by Liz Downes. Earth Matters #1421 Producer: Judith Peppard   

In this episode, Ralph and Luc venture into the thorny discussions of what to do about the rainforest's impact on the globe. In the aftermath of Lula's conference in Belem, Brazil, in August 2023, we spotlight some good news: great strides are being made against deforestation, and South American leaders are keen to protect the Amazonian rainforest. We also unpack criticisms and highlight pragmatic perspectives from Colombia and Ecuador, such as debt for nature swaps.Sources:• We sample a quote from climate scientist Stephen Schneider from this 1981 British TV documentary by Thames Television called “Warming Warning”. You can see the clip in context at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHAbYOXjzk/• A chart comparing Amazon deforestation between 2022 and 2023:https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E100/production/_131000675_amazon_deforestation_aug_update-nc.png.webp• You can read the Belem declaration – which the Amazon rainforest countries signed at the end of the August 2023 conference – here (in Spanish): https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/canais_atendimento/imprensa/notas-a-imprensa/declaracao-presidencial-por-ocasiao-da-cupula-da-amazonia-2013-iv-reuniao-de-presidentes-dos-estados-partes-no-tratado-de-cooperacao-amazonica/• Lula's Speech closing the Belem conference (translated in English):https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/follow-the-government/speeches/speech-by-president-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-at-the-amazon-summit-with-guest-countries-in-belem-brazil/• Articles in the journal Nature criticising Lula's ecological record (especially on drilling):https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02511-x/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02187-3/• You can see Colombian President Gustavo Petro's address at the Belem conference (in Spanish):Read: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/news/prosperidad-descarbonizada-otro-tipo-sociedad-poder-economia-propone-presidente/Or watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehsae42q_Mk/• More information on Ecuador's referendum on oil drilling in Yasuni:https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ecuador-says-it-will-honor-referendum-yasuni-oil-project-2023-08-24/

Diesmal mit Verena Kern und Katharina Schipkowski. Der Expertenrat für Klimafragen hat das Klimaschutzprogramm der Bundesregierung unter die Lupe genommen. Ergebnis: Es gibt Fortschritte, aber es reicht nicht. Viele Maßnahmen sind zu unkonkret und ihre Reduktionswirkung wird überschätzt. Die Fachleute fordern ein schlüssiges Gesamtkonzept für den Klimaschutz. Die Klimakrise wird zur Ernährungskrise. Dass wir die Erde durch ein Übermaß an Treibhausgasen massiv aufheizen, kommt in den Supermarktregalen an: Produkte wie Orangensaft, Zucker und Olivenöl sind deutlich teurer geworden. Wegen der steigenden Temperaturen sind aber auch Grundnahrungsmittel von Dürre bedroht. Ecuadors Bevölkerung hat mit deutlicher Mehrheit für den Stopp der Erdölförderung im Yasuní-Nationalpark im Amazonasgebiet gestimmt. Das Ergebnis des Referendums ist bindend. Innerhalb eines Jahres müssen nun alle Förderanlagen im betreffenden Gebiet zurückgebaut und die Bohrlöcher versiegelt werden. Zehn Jahre lang hatten indigene Gruppen, Menschenrechts- und Umweltorganisationen dafür gekämpft, dass die Abstimmung stattfinden kann. -- Das klima update° wird jede Woche von Spender*innen unterstützt. Wenn auch du dazu beitragen willst, geht das HIER https://www.verein-klimawissen.de/spenden. Wir danken hier und jetzt - aber auch noch mal namentlich im Podcast (natürlich nur, wenn ihr zustimmt).

durée : 00:04:15 - Au jour le jour - par : Isabelle de Gaulmyn, Jérôme Chapuis, Jean-Christophe Ploquin, Fabienne Lemahieu - Les habitants de l'équateur ont voté pour l'arrêt de l'exploitation d'un gisement pétrolier situé dans le parc national Yasuni. Un choix historique, qui met de côté les considérations économiques pour l'écologie et la sanctuarisation des terres indigènes.

0:08 – Eugene Cordero, professor meteorology and climate science at San Jose State University; also founder of the educational publisher Green Ninja 0:17 – Mark Becker, professor of history at Truman State University, author most recently of Contemporary Latin American Revolutions 0:33 – Nate Gartrell, reporter for the Bay Area News Group covering crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. The post California floods (in August!); Ecuador bans drilling in the Yasuni; Federal raids on Antioch police appeared first on KPFA.

22 août 2023 Le ministre de la santé Christian Dubé n'exclut pas d'utiliser le bâillon pour faire adopter sa réforme de la santéDubé a dit à Radio-Canada qu'il préférerait ne pas avoir besoin du bâillon, une procédure parlementaire qui impose une limite maximale à la durée des débats. Mais il a ajouté: «si c'est ça que ça prend, on le fera».Justin Trudeau accuse Meta, la société-mère de Facebook et Instagram, de prioriser ses profits plutôt que le bien-être et l'information des Canadiens.L'organisme canadien Les Amis de la radiodiffusion appelle les Canadiens à ne pas publier de contenu sur Facebook et Instagram pendant 48 heures, mercredi et jeudi de cette semaine.La Guerre en Ukraine a fait près de 500 000 morts et blessésC'est le bilan actuel que font des responsables américains, selon le New York Times.En Amérique du Sud, les citoyens de l'Équateur ont décidé à 59% par référendum de ne plus extraire de pétrole ni faire de forage pétrolier dans le parc national de Yasuni. Joe Natale, ex-PDG de Rogers Communications, poursuit son ancien employeur pour 24 millions $. Il accuse l'entreprise de l'avoir injustement remercié et d'avoir brisé son contrat. Selon une étude de l'Organisation internationale du travail, une branche de l'ONU, l'intelligence artificielle dite «générative» ne devrait pas, en règle générale, éliminer d'emplois. Cependant, certaines catégories d'emplois sont plus à risque d'être remplacées. C'est le cas des emplois de bureau, parce qu'environ le quart des tâches de bureautique pourraient être automatisées par l'intelligence artificielle.Une intelligence artificielle ne peut pas produire d'image protégée par un droit d'auteurC'est la conclusion d'une juge américaine du district fédéral de Columbia. Elle a tranché qu'un droit d'auteur (un copyright) ne peut être octroyé à une œuvre d'art qui n'a pas été créée par un humain.Cruise, une filiale de General Motors qui exploite une flotte de 300 taxis autonomes à San Francisco, vient de réduire de moitié le nombre de ses véhicules en circulation. Cruise se conforme ainsi à une demande du régulateur californien, qui enquête sur 2 récentes collisions ayant impliqué des robotaxis de l'entreprise. Lors de la deuxième Journée nationale du cinéma ce dimanche 27 août, toutes les séances pour des films à l'affiche seront à 4 $ le billet dans une soixantaine de cinémas québécois.Les chaines Cineplex et Guzzo et certains cinémas indépendants participent à l'événement [vous trouverez un lien vers la liste complète des cinémas participant à InfoBref.com].--- Détails sur ces nouvelles et autres nouvelles: https://infobref.com S'abonner aux infolettres gratuites d'InfoBref: https://infobref.com/infolettres Écouter le balado d'InfoBref et voir comment s'y abonner sur les principales plateformes de balado: https://infobref.com/audio Commentaires et suggestions à l'animateur Patrick Pierra, et information sur la commandite de ce balado: editeur@infobref.com Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

En un consulta popular, los electores ecuatorianos votaron en su mayoría a favor de parar la extracción de petróleo del Bloque 43 de extracción, los yacimientos Yasuni ITT, ubicados en un parque nacional amazónico. Las companias petroleras tendrán que desmantelar las instalaciones. RFI les cuenta los diez años de lucha del colectivo Yasunidos y de los pueblos indígenas que defendían la protección de esta zona de biodiversidad única. Considerado por Naciones Unidas como una de las zonas con mayor biodiversidad por metro cuadrados del mundo, el Yasuní un parque nacional tropical de 10.000 km cuadrados en la Amazonia ecuatoriana. Esta zona de la Amazonía es también el territorio donde transitan los pueblos indígenas no contactados, en aislamiento voluntario, Tagaeri y Taromenane que viven en armonía con la selva.En este parque, el territorio de los indígenas waorani colinda con el el Bloque 43 de petróleo que alberga cerca del 20% de las reservas de crudo de Ecuador, un país bajo perfusión del FMI. En 2007 sin embargo, ante la doble crisis ecológica mundial: el exceso de emisiones de CO2 y la pérdida de biodiversidad, el entonces presidente Rafael Correa lanzó la iniciativa Yasuni ITT.El trato era sencillo: Ecuador se comprometía mantener en el subsuelo millones de barriles de petróleo a cambio de una compensación financiera de la comunidad internacional. Pero en 2013, en una declaración televisada, Rafael Correa anunció la suspensión del proyecto. "El mundo nos ha fallado", justificaba el entonces mandatario de izquierda.Tres años después, en 2016 se iniciaron las perforaciones y la explotación del bloque 43 en tres yacimientos: Tiputini, al norte del parque Yasuni, Tambococha, dentro del parque e Ishpingo, un yacimiento ubicado en la sensible zona de amortiguamiento.Pero un colectivo de activistas ecuatorianos, los Yasunidos, de la mano con representantes de pueblos indígenas de la amazonia ecuatoriana decidieron llevar a consulta popular la protección del Yasuni ITT, para parar la explotación petrolera. Después de una década de batalla legal contra varios gobiernos, los electores se pudieron pronunciar sobre la siguiente pregunta: ¿Está usted de acuerdo en que el gobierno ecuatoriano mantenga el crudo del ITT, conocido como bloque 43 indefinidamente en el subsuelo?El ministro de energía saliente Fernando Santos Alvite indicó que el estado ecuatoriano perdería 1200 millones de dólares de ingresos. "No se puede vivir de aire, de pajarito y reptiles", dijo en una respuesta irónica a los defensores de la conservación del Yasuni. Pero el 20 de agosto, una mayoría de electores respondió "sí" a la pregunta de esta consulta histórica. Con un 58,99% de votos a favor, los electores aprobaron la suspensión de la extracción petrolera en el bloque 43, las compañías deberán retirar gradualmente sus instalaciones en esta zona del parque Yasuní.La protección del Yasuní, que finalmente se hará sin apoyos financieros internacionales, obligará al estado ecuatoriano a buscar ingresos en otras áreas y prescindir de una parte de su renta petrolera. Un reto y al mismo tiempo ejemplo para un mundo que debería abandonar poco a poco las energías fósiles, preoconiza el panel de expertos sobre el clima (IPCC).RFI conversó con Alejandra Santillana, portavoz del colectivo Yasunidos que destaca la importancia de proteger este bosque tropical donde viven especies endémicas de murciélagos, así como tucanes, guacamayos, jaguares y delfines rosados.Hueiya Alicia Cahuiya, dirigente de la confederación de nacionalidades indígenas del ecuador y de la Asociación de mujeres waorani explica por su parte que la explotación petrolera no ha permitido cumplir las promesas de desarrollo.

¡Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio del podcast de Bad Habits en pleno verano! Esta semana hemos invitado a un invitado recurrente, el biólogo y académico: Pablo Sánchez y además hemos traido a una nueva invitada: Sofía Torres de Yasunidos, el colectivo que lucha por la conservación del Parque Nacional de Yasuní y que impulsa una campaña sobre la consulta popular que preguntará a los ecuatorianos si es que están de acuerdo en dejar bajo tierra o extraer el petróleo del Yasuni, uno de los lugares con más diversidad del planeta en las elecciones anticipadas del 23 de agosto de este año.

Javier Sánchez-Monge continua con el relato de la convivencia que tuvo con los huaoranis en el interior de la selva Yasuni. Permaneció con ellos 9 meses adaptando sus costumbres. No usaba ropa y los acompañaba a pescar y cazar. Adoptó un mono araña que le hacía compañía. Este es el segundo capítulo de su vida entre los huaoranis. Emitido en "Levando anclas" el 17 de abril 2022.

Wanna hear what it's like to hold a piranha in your hand? Ever wonder what it's like to swim in piranha infested waters? Listen to Part 2 of Jason's podcast from his adventure down into the Ecuadorian Amazon!In this episode Jason talks about visiting the beautiful area of Cuyabeno that has stunning waters, sunsets, wildlife and more. He visits old abandoned camps and does photo shoots in trees surrounded by water. We hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening!

Wanna know what it's like to be an adventure travel photographer? To embark on an adventure to the middle of nowhere and stay with the tribes? Join Jason Lanier for Part 1 of a 2 part series where he recounts his epic journey to the heart of the Amazon jungle in Ecuador where he stayed in the protected area of Yasuni with the Waorani tribe, the last uncivilized indigenous tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon.This podcast contains tips for how to make it in these situations, and how to prepare yourself for a similar journey. We thank you for listening and ask you to share it with someone who you know would enjoy it!

C’est un précédent qui pourrait faire tache d’huile. Trois grandes banques européennes, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse et ING, annoncent qu’elles ne financeront plus le négoce du pétrole de la région d’Amazonie en Équateur. Les institutions financières étaient sous la pression des ONG environnementales depuis l’été. Les investisseurs avaient déjà tendance à se détourner du financement des projets d’extraction d’énergies fossiles. Un nouveau pas est franchi, sous la pression des défenseurs de l’environnement : le financement du négoce de pétrole extrait de régions à l’écosystème fragile a du plomb dans l’aile à son tour. Trois banques européennes et pas des moindres ont annoncé qu’elles ne financeraient plus la commercialisation du pétrole équatorien de la région d’Amazonie : la française BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse et la banque néerlandaise ING. Elles faisaient partie des six banques pointées du doigt depuis août dernier dans un rapport de Stand Earth et Amazon Watch, parce qu’elles finançaient l’achat de pétrole extrait de la région amazonienne de l’Équateur. Un pays d’Amérique latine qui projette de forer dans le Parc naturel de Yasuni, classé au Patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco. Peu de barils, mais un exemple Dénoncée elle aussi, la banque néerlandaise Rabobank avait été la première à annoncer qu’elle stoppait le financement du négoce de brut équatorien en 2020. La banque suisse UBS s’était, elle, dite prête à dialoguer avec les ONG et à renoncer aux transactions lorsque l’origine du pétrole serait associée à des entorses aux droits de peuples indigènes ou à la protection du Patrimoine mondial. Jusqu’à présent la banque française Natixis est restée de marbre. Elle aurait même, selon Stand Earth et Amazon Watch, doublé son financement pour le brut de la région au deuxième semestre 2020. Il n’empêche, ce coup de frein au financement du négoce de pétrole équatorien est un précédent. S’il ne porte pas à conséquence en volume, à l’échelle du commerce mondial de brut, l’Équateur ne produisant qu’un demi-million de barils par jour (0,5% de l’offre pétrolière mondiale), il pourrait faire tache d’huile dans le négoce du pétrole issu d’autres régions du monde. C’est évidemment une difficulté supplémentaire pour l’Équateur, qui utilisait l’argent du pétrole vendu aux raffineries des États-Unis, pour rembourser sa lourde dette à la Chine.  

Begoña García y Hugo Alfonso nos cuentan el primer capítulo de la vuelta al mundo en bicicleta. Desde Donosti hasta la cordilera del Pamir en Asia Central. Gemma Miralda realiza fotografía documental en las carceles de Bolivia y sigue durante cinco veranos a los pastores de altura del Pirineo. Antonio Picazo publica la novela "El crimen tropical del señor obispo". Una trama de ficción en un escenario que conoce pues ha estado en el Parque Nacional de Yasuni en Ecuador. Eduardo del Pino lleva una docena de años llevando un espectaculo de circo solidario por lugares como India, Nepal o Nicara...

Begoña García y Hugo Alfonso nos cuentan el primer capítulo de la vuelta al mundo en bicicleta. Desde Donosti hasta la cordilera del Pamir en Asia Central. Gemma Miralda realiza fotografía documental en las carceles de Bolivia y sigue durante cinco veranos a los pastores de altura del Pirineo. Antonio Picazo publica la novela "El crimen tropical del señor obispo". Una trama de ficción en un escenario que conoce pues ha estado en el Parque Nacional de Yasuni en Ecuador. Eduardo del Pino lleva una docena de años llevando un espectaculo de circo solidario por lugares como India, Nepal o Nicara...

Begoña García y Hugo Alfonso nos cuentan el primer capítulo de la vuelta al mundo en bicicleta. Desde Donosti hasta la cordilera del Pamir en Asia Central. Gemma Miralda realiza fotografía documental en las carceles de Bolivia y sigue durante cinco veranos a los pastores de altura del Pirineo. Antonio Picazo publica la novela "El crimen tropical del señor obispo". Una trama de ficción en un escenario que conoce pues ha estado en el Parque Nacional de Yasuni en Ecuador. Eduardo del Pino lleva una docena de años llevando un espectaculo de circo solidario por lugares como India, Nepal o Nicaragua...

Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:01] This is Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area Innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today, our first show of 2020 will feature Layla Salazar-Lopez, the executive director of Amazon Watch. Most people know what Amazon Watch is, but for some people who may not know, can you review the mission?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:00:31] Sure. Thanks for having me. Amazon Watch is a Bay Area based nonprofit organization. We were founded in 1996. Our mission is to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon basin. The Amazon rainforest is the biggest tropical rainforest on the planet. Most people know and think of the Amazon as the lungs of the earth. All those trees, all of that life, absorbing carbon and producing rain for not just the Amazon, but for the world. This massive rainforest, an ecosystem, actually helps to create the weather systems throughout South America and also around the world. So it is a vital organ of the earth's ecosystem. And so we're working to protect the rainforest to avert climate chaos. And our theory of change is that the best way to do that is by working with, standing with, supporting the rights and the voices in the territories of indigenous peoples.Lisa Kiefer: [00:01:44] And is that because they live there, they are on the front lines of i?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:01:48] Of course! indigenous peoples have been living in the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years, over 400 distinct nationalities, groups and even uncontacted peoples. Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and throughout the world are the best protectors of the natural places that we still have left on this planet. Eighty percent of the biodiversity around the world is on indigenous people's lands. So if we are concerned about climate change or chaos, I would say, or if we concern about the extinction crisis that we're facing, one of the best ways that we can do all we can to protect what we have left, is to support indigenous people's territories being protected. Those are the places that have the biodiversity and have the trees that create the much needed rain.Lisa Kiefer: [00:02:43] Well, you just got back from the Madrid climate summit, the 25th summit, and it was supposed to be in Brazil. And Bolonaro nixed that. And there have been many challenges, but it did come off. I wondered if you could give us sort of a a summary of what what you talked about.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:03:00] You know, as you mentioned, COP 25, which is a conference of parties on climate change, world leaders, government leaders, elected leaders, negotiators that represent governments. Nearly 200 governments around the world attend the cops, plus civil society, NGOs, affected communities and also corporations. Unfortunately, the COP for decades has been primarily dominated by governments and corporations. That's why we've had 25 years of inactivity, really, of doing the minimum. And yes, we could praise the Paris Climate Agreement. Amazon Watch was there with indigenous peoples from around the world, from the Amazon to Alaska, to ensure that the voices of of the community that are most affected are heard. Our focus at COP 25 was to amplify the voices of indigenous peoples. There are very few spaces for indigenous peoples, people who are protecting biodiversity on our planet, for them to speak, for them to share their concerns and share their solutions. And so our mission is to ensure that they have a space not only to have space, but they are promoting their solutions and their solutions are heard. And one of those solutions is the Sacred Headwaters Initiative. So we released a report, at COP, a threat assessment on the sacred headwaters. And we spoke to global media and got a lot of attention on this region. It's in Ecuador and Peru, which is the most biodiverse part of the Amazon. It's Yasuni National Park. The scientists, the conservationists who are on the ground in the Yasuni, the indigenous peoples who live there, say that this is the most biodiverse part of the Amazon. It's under threat by massive oil development. This region, the tropical Andes region of the Amazon, is mega-biodiverse. We need our governments and true leaders to really take the action that's needed, right now, which is to make commitments to really take us off fossil fuels.Lisa Kiefer: [00:05:05] So what does the COP 25 conference hold people to?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:05:08] All of the governments, 196 countries have made commitments to reduce emissions. I mean, that's really the language spoken at COP, to reduce emissions, to deal with mitigation, adaptation. Governments have made commitments to reduce emissions. The big elephant in the room is what about stopping extraction? What about a phase out, a full phase out of fossil fuel extraction and a complete commitment to a transition to renewable energies, to renewable energy economies, green jobs? Like what we're talking about in the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is a recipe for what, not just the United States, but world governments can be doing around the world to do what's really, really needed. Because if we only focus on reducing emissions, we are not going to get below 1.5 degrees. 1.5 degrees is really what we need to aim for. We've already surpassed 350 parts per million. We're on a track to go way beyond 2 degrees and way beyond 2 degrees is is what we're seeing. We're seeing the signs of it now. We're seeing Australia. We're seeing California. I mean, right here in our own backyard for three years, for three summers and falls, we have felt the effects of climate change and climate chaos. We have had massive wildfires, massive forest fires. And not just in the forest. Right? They've all also affected communities, you know, from Santa Rosa to Paradise. We're not just seeing fires, you know, in forests in California. We're seeing fires in the Arctic. We're seeing fires in the Amazon. We're seeing fires in Australia right now. It's not 10 years away. It's not 20 years away. It's now.Lisa Kiefer: [00:06:59] I'm curious if Black Rock was at the COP 25 conference. Do they show up?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:05] Representatives of Black Rock. Representatives of Exxon. Representatives of agribusiness or the fossil fuel and agribusiness industries? The financiers. I mean, they're definitely there.Lisa Kiefer: [00:07:17] And do you feel that you had success this time or is it just sort of a stalemate?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:21] I think COP 25 was a major failure for the state of the planet right now. Major failure for global governments, considering the urgency of what we're facing.Lisa Kiefer: [00:07:32] We have so many distractions right now, the assassination of Soleimani, the impeachment proceedings, those are attention grabbers. With those challenges of distraction, what is your strategy at Amazon Watch for 2020 to keep you in the news cycle?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:48] At the end of August 2019, the world woke up to what was really happening in the Amazon. It's what we've been seeing for decades, which is, the Amazon is under major, major threat by governments, including, you know, the Bolsonaro government in Brazil, by corporations, primarily agri-business in Brazil, and the fossil fuel and mining industries in the western Amazon and also by the banks that invest in these destructive projects and destructive practices. You know, warning after warning, report after report, protest after protest, we were doing everything that we could to sound the alarm. And it wasn't until the news story broke that the Amazon is on fire. And the visuals people saw the rainforest on fire, that people started to say, what is happening? You know, not only the Amazon is on fire, we should stop the fires, but why? Why is Amazon on fire? The Amazon is not on fire because it was an accidental wildfire. The Amazon was set on fire. The Amazon was set on fire by intentional government policies to set the fires, to clear land, to make way for agri-business. And that's why over 3 million hectares of forest burned in Brazil and over five million burned in Bolivia. And while people will say there's always fires, yeah, there's always a dry season and a wet season in the Amazon. But the fires are not like this. And the reason they're not like this is because, one, there is a drought-- for many years. And two, there was an intentional, deliberate, malicious intent behind this.Lisa Kiefer: [00:09:31] If you're just tuning in, you're listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today, I'm speaking with Leila Salazar Lopez, the executive director of Amazon Watch, an organization that protects and defends the bio cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:10:00] There's always been fires in in Australia during the dry season and they're wildfires. They're not intentionally set. But why have millions of hectares of Australia burned and are burning at the same time? Because there has been a massive drought caused by climate change. Basically what I'm saying is making the connection between the Amazon and Australia's drought caused by climate change and there's governments behind policies that are ignoring the reality of what's happening.Lisa Kiefer: [00:10:28] Bolsonaro's argument is to the world that 'this is my country. Don't tell me how to run my country.'Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:10:35] Well, he prides himself on calling himself the Trump of the tropics. Bolsonaro is a far right president who was elected last year in Brazil. You know, we're talking about a fascist, a leader, and, you know, I hesitate to say that because I think, you know, a leader should be thinking about all of their people they're representing. People like Bolsonaro were elected on a platform of stability and security. The prior government was deemed corrupt, inefficient. And so what the government ran on was, you know, we need security. We need jobs and we need to better our economy. And under the Lula administration, under the prior socialist, the Worker's Party platform, the government of Brazil was on top. The National Development Bank had money and they were, you know, constructing and building and had plans to have zero poverty, zero hunger, zero deforestation. They had a soy moratorium. They had lots of policies in place. But they also, because there were the Workers Party, they also were promoting jobs that were mostly engineering construction jobs like huge industrial construction, including the Belo Monte Dam, which is the third largest mega dam in the world. And it was built in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. So, you know, while we had many, many concerns, environmental and human rights concerns, with the prior government. They are nothing in comparison to what's happening with this government. The Bolonaro government is in an all out attack on civil society, is an all out attack on indigenous people, on human rights, on women, on Afro-Brazilians across the country, the environment. And we've seen it since day one in office. A year ago when Bolsonaro was elected, he immediately merged ministries, the agriculture, the environment ministry. He defunded the FUNAI, which is like the Bureau of Indian Affairs, de-funded IBAMA, which is the Environmental Agency, like the Environmental Protection Agency. How is IBAMA and FUNAI going to do their work in protecting the rainforest and defending indigenous people's rights if they don't have any funding? And it was intentional, if you defund them yet there's no forest guards, there's no there's no monitoring. I mean, Brazil is the most dangerous place to be an indigenous or human rights activist. And that was even before Bolsanaro. But now it's even worse. On a weekly basis, we're getting reports of indigenous people primarily being assassinated, not only threatened, but assassinated on their lands for protecting their lands, for protecting forests from cattle ranchers, from people paid by agri-business, people paid by corporations, to take their land and land grabbers.Lisa Kiefer: [00:13:29] So what do you, as an organisation, what are you going to do about this?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:13:32] So Amazon Watch has been working since 1996, protecting the rainforest, defending human rights, indigenous rights. And our mission isn't going to change. Our strategies are really to hone in on the major threats and who's causing those threats. So, for example, we are naming and shaming the governments, companies and banks that are responsible. We actually released a report last April with ipb, which is the articulation of indigenous peoples of Brazil, because remember, Brazil has the world's largest rainforest, tropical rainforests, the world's largest tropical savanna and the world's largest wetlands, the Amazon, the Sahado and the Pantanal. It is a massive, interconnected ecosystem protected by indigenous peoples and very threatened by industry and government. And so we are organizing campaigns, organizing actions, coordinating with our NGO allies, with indigenous allies, with human rights organizations around the world to act for the Amazon. And immediately after the news of the fires broke at the end of September, we called upon allies around the world and said, let's all work together. Let's all work together. This is the time to work together.Lisa Kiefer: [00:14:48] And who are those allies?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:14:50] Extinction rebellion, Greenpeace, Avaaz, Rainforest Action Network, and here locally in the Bay Area, Brazil Solidarity Network. Every month, there's an action at the Brazilian consulate since Bolsonaro was elected, there's been actions to respond to the attacks on the rainforest, attacks on indigenous people, attacks on Afro-Brazilians. Attacks on women. And so if we continue to coordinate actions at the Brazilian consulate, the government, we continue to organize actions at BlackRock, which we have done many times over the last year. And we also engage with the governments and these corporations when possible. We're writing them letters. We're going to their headquarters. During the U.N. Climate Week in September with a delegation of, you know, over 50 people, we went into BlackRock's corporate headquarters in New York and delivered over 500000 thousand letters from around the world to say BlackRock stop investing in the destruction of the Amazon, the destruction of our climate. BlackRock is an asset manager that is the biggest investor in climate destruction around the world. They invest in oil and gas. They invest in mining. They invest in agro business. And so there's a network called "BlackRock's big problem" that we're a part of, that is organizing, you know, writing reports and writing letters to BlackRock and engaging with BlackRock, going to their shareholder meetings. Before two years ago, no one had ever been to a BlackRock Shareholder meeting. It was just 30 people sitting around a table in suits. And over the last two years, they've had to face criticism. They've had to face indigenous peoples in their boardrooms. They've had to face, you know, NGOs and questioning.Lisa Kiefer: [00:16:36] Has this resulted in any changes?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:16:38] Not yet, to be totally honest. You know, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock every January, puts out a letter to clients saying how they're committed to the environment, how they're committed to equality. You know, we're going to continue to call him out on that and hold him to those words, because if you're saying you're committed to the environment and climate change, we don't want minimum action, as Greta Thunberg so eloquently says. You know, we have to act as if our house is on fire because it is. We are responding to the needs and requests of our partners, primarily in the Amazon.Lisa Kiefer: [00:17:18] So how often do you go down there?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:17:20] I go a couple times a year to to meet with our partners and actually be in the forest and get inspiration for, you know, why we're doing this work. And we also lead delegations down to the Amazon. We have field coordinators in the Amazon, in Ecuador and Peru and Brazil. And we're a pretty small organization. And our strength really lies in the partnerships, the long term partnerships that we have with the indigenous communities, organizations, national organization, national indigenous organizations and regional organizations, and as well as our NGO allies throughout the Amazon. So those long term partnerships are what help us define like what we need to do this year. You know, respond to the fires, respond to new oil development projects, respond to China in the Amazon, and then from there develop strategies. Also work with local movements such as the Sunrise Movement that is really led by the youth. The youth right now are really showing the leadership.Lisa Kiefer: [00:18:22] Who do you think of all the candidates is the most, would be the most reliable partner in terms of climate mitigation and adaptation?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:18:31] Amazon Watch doesn't officially endorse, but personally, there's only two candidates that even come close. And that's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.Lisa Kiefer: [00:18:40] Well, they're the only ones who even talk about the Green New Deal.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:18:43] Yeah. Think about how much energy and resources governments put into war. We invest a lot of our tax money in, you know, it's all in. But when it's time to think about the future of our children, grandchildren, seven generations and all life on this planet, what we need is a war effort to turn, not only turn emissions around, but turn extraction around and a complete commitment by government and civil society and the private sector and companies. If we have any kind of future left on this planet, we need to really turn around the way that we're living our daily lives. And, you know, that may be scary for people to hear. But when I say we need to, we need to change our economy, we need to change our daily way of life. It's not inconceivable to think that civil society can mobilize a new economy, a new way of life, new policies that could protect us and and our future. Nationalism and the rise of nationalism is the opposite of what we need to be doing. You know, we need to be looking at planet Earth like a system. We're all on this earth together. We have no other, even though there's some people who want to build, you know, space stations and think they can get away from our problems. The majority of the people can't. We are the Majority. We're way more than them. We can demand and make the changes that we need.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:20:04] I'm curious how you got involved in the Amazon. Was there a moment where you were inspired to do that?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:20:10] Well, I grew up in Southern California, near the border. My family's from Mexico. I grew up pretty traditional Mexican family. We grew up near the beach. And one summer there was a medical waste spill on our beach. We couldn't go on the beach for a while. And that was my kind of wakeup call to environmental awareness. You know, because the beach was like, oh, you know, it's where we go to to play, to rest, enjoy. And it's free and it should be open and accessible to everyone. And when it wasn't, that was my wake-up call. And then from there, you know, we we started up an environmental group on our high school campus and, you know, started doing beach cleanups. And that was kind of the beginning of activism. We started our environmental group and we started or organizing our own Earth Day festivals and Earth Day events. One of the guest speakers I will always remember because he gave a slideshow about the rainforest and it was so beautiful. And I'd never seen anything like that. And I just thought one day I want to go there. Fast forward a couple years. I'm at UC Santa Barbara and student advisor says, you know, you're going to need to do an internship in your second year. And, you know, you could volunteer at a local environmental organization or a local government representatives office. And I said, well, I wanna go to the rainforest. I said, okay, that's pretty far and pretty expensive. And I said, well, I'll take out a student loan. And I did that. And that changed my life. That changed the path and the direction of my life. Because, one, I'd never been to South America. I'd never seen the rainforest. I'd never seen the beauty and also the destruction and the threats. The summer of 1995 was when I connected with the forest and realized that it was indigenous peoples who were protecting it and that they were a library of knowledge that could not be replicated in any way. You know, just walking in the forest with someone who has lived there all their life and has a spiritual connection to the forest. I mean, you could walk 30 meters and they will know every single plant that you walk by and know what its properties are. Know what it's used for and whether it's used to build a house, or to cook with, or to use as medicine, or to build a canoe. They know how to use everything and they do it with respect. And that, just that, was like a huge lesson in what is really needed to protect the forest. On my way out of the forest, I saw an oil spill. The trans Ecuadorian pipeline had ruptured and crude oil from the north east Ecuadorian Amazon was just spilling into the river, into the main water source of the city of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It was my, you know, my second kind of wake-up call to how could this be happening? Who did this? Why is this happening? Who allowed this? Why aren't they shutting it off? Why isn't it stopping? That really enraged me. And I found out that it was Texaco who had set up the infrastructure, who had basically found oil in the Amazon, set up the entire infrastructure, convinced the government in the 1960s to allow them to set up the infrastructure and drill and dump. And there were no environmental or human rights or indigenous rights laws in the country or even in the world. At that time, there weren't conventions on, there was a declaration on human rights, but there wasn't the declaration on indigenous rights. But still, during this time, Texaco drilled and dumped on the indigenous territories of five indigenous nationalities. And also where uncontacted peoples are and created what we called a rainforest Chernobyl. And still to this day, even though Chevron, which Texaco is now Chevron here in the bay, even though Chevron was found guilty in 2012, they still have not paid a dime, and probably have paid more in legal fees in the last 25 years to fight this than to resolve it. They've never denied that they did it, that they drilled and dumped. They don't wanna set a precedent that if you do this, you'll be held accountable. When I got back from the Amazon the first time, I said, I'm going to dedicate my life to doing everything I can to prevent this from happening again. And I will do everything I can to hold this company accountable. And so in 2002, when I first started working for Amazon Watch, we launched a campaign called the Chevron Cleanup Ecuador Campaign. And so we've been doing a lot of.Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:34] That was very successful.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:24:34] The Chevron lawsuit was a major, major victory when we heard news of of the judgment. It was one of the proudest moments of...Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:46] We can do this.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:24:47] We can do this. Like this is one of the biggest just a very typical David Goliath story. Right. We're going up against one of the biggest corporations on the planet. We beat them. Also another Oil victory was Occidental Petroleum. Occidental Petroleum did very similar to what Chevron, Texaco, now Chevron did in the Peruvian Amazon. And after seven years of attending their shareholder meetings, also filing a lawsuit against them with the Otwar people of Peru. We we actually settled a lawsuit with Occidental Petroleum and they agreed to pay a settlement to the Otwar people for the contamination that they had caused in the Peruvian Amazon and also with Oxy, one of the first and most proudest victories of Amazon Watch, is working with the Ottawa and a whole network that wide defense coalition around the world to get Occidental Petroleum out of what territory in Colombia. Many of our victories, the last one I'll mention is in Brazil. Actually, it's the Tapajos dam and we were not able to stop the Belo Monte mega dam construction. The following dam proposal was Tapajos mega dam on one last free flowing blackwater rivers in the Amazon, in Brazil. And just a few years ago, the Brazilian government announced that they were not going to build it. They were actually going to change their dam building policy and begin to invest in renewable energy. That's now all changed with Bolsanaro.Lisa Kiefer: [00:26:18] Are the dams back on the table?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:26:20] Everything's back on the table. I mean, their policy is the Amazon is open for business. And I think that's shameful. It's completely shameful.Lisa Kiefer: [00:26:28] What are some of your immediate plans as an organization?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:26:32] Funny that you mentioned it. Amazon Watch has been a pretty small organization for the last 23 years. I mean, we've been around 10 people plus field consultants plus, you know, working with our partners across the Amazon. One result of the attention on the Amazon is that there's been a lot more interest in supporting organizations like ours. And so we are growing. There is a lot more attention on organizations such as Amazon Watch and a lot more offers for financial support and a lot more offers for volunteers and people who across the world who want to volunteer, who want to help. And so right now, we're at a moment, we're actually at a moment of strategic planning to really envision what we want the next five to 10 years, the focus of our next five to 10 years, to be. Our mission is to protect the rainforest, defend indigenous rights and advance climate justice. We're going to continue to focus on those strategic areas with campaigns, but we have to do it with more urgency because the Amazon is at a tipping point. Scientists say that the Amazon will reach its tipping point when the deforestation and degradation is over 20 percent. It's about 17 to 18 percent now. And so what we need for the Amazon is a full scale commitment to protect, defend and restore it. Protect means protecting what's left. Anything that's still left standing, whether it be indigenous peoples territories, whether it be protected areas, national parks, private lands, anything that's still left standing needs to be protected and defended. And promote solutions of indigenous peoples, promote on the ground solutions for restoration, for alternative energy. We need to invest and increase the use of solar energy, the use of renewable energy.Lisa Kiefer: [00:28:19] And show some solutions.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:28:21] And show those solutions. And so we are working on promoting indigenous led solutions, promoting protection and defense of indigenous territories with our people in Peru. We're fighting Geo Park to get them off territory this year and in years to come. Our focus really is going to be on protecting and advancing the sacred headwaters and beyond. Who is complicit in the destruction of the Amazon? Let's call them out. Let's engage with them. Let's pressure them. We're also getting ready for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the establishment of the environmental movement around the world. I'm a UC Santa Barbara alumni. It's where the first environmental studies department was in the whole world. And why was that? Because there was a giant oil spill in 1969 in Santa Barbara. And what that sparked was a movement, that sparked environmental studies department at UC Santa Barbara. It sparked environmental laws across this country. It sparked Earth Day. When we reflect on 50 years ago and everything that's happened, we've made progress and we've also majorly rolled back progress with the Trump administration. Here in the United States, we need to defend all of the achievements over the last 50 years. We need to defend our laws. We need to defend our rights and our democracy. And that's very similar to what Brazilians are saying. We're at a turning point, a very important election that, you know, could really turn things around. We have to do everything we possibly can.Lisa Kiefer: [00:29:55] If you could just tell people how they might get a hold of you?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:29:57] Amazonwatch.org. Follow us on social media for all the latest reports and news and updates and opportunities to get involved. We're located in Oakland. You can call us up, visit us. We would really encourage youth and students and anyone who wants to get involved to make the connections between California and the Amazon. The oil and the Amazon, while it comes from the Amazon, the majority that's exported comes right here to California. We are very connected to the Amazon. It's it's it's real. Learn more. Go to our Web site. We have to do this together.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:36] Thank you, Leila, for coming on the program.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:30:38] You're welcome. Thank you.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:41] You've been listening to Method to the Madness, a bi weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. We'll be back again in two weeks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jessica Crance is a research biologist who recently discovered right whales singing for the first time. While some whales like humpbacks and bowheads are known for their melodious songs, none of the three species of right whale has ever been known to sing. Crance led the research team at NOAA that documented North Pacific right whales breaking into song in the Bering Sea, and on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, she will play recordings of two different right whale song types and discuss what we know about why the critically endangered whales might be singing. Here’s this episode’s top news: Japan resumes commercial whale hunting Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni, home to uncontacted tribes, opens for oil drilling Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River Please invite your friends to subscribe to this show via Android, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify or wherever they get podcasts. Visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep this show growing, Mongabay is a nonproft media outlet and all support helps. See our latest news at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay.  

A fully binaural 30-minute podcast featuring 23 nature soundscapes from the Yasuni National Park region in Ecuador's lowland rainforest (at the wonderful Sani Lodge). All recordings were gathered during the first week of November, 2018. Please use headphones for a fully immersive listening experience! In this nature sound experience, I share my rainforest recording adventure, condensing nearly six days of field work into a reconstruction of a typical day of observing and listening. The soundscapes that are featured can indeed be experienced in a day. Not so with recording ... it's far easier to listen than to actually capture the soundscapes. That said, I am quite happy with what I managed to get, although I sure wish I could have stayed for another few days. As an aside, the guides at Sani Lodge, all indigenous, were terrific. Not only did they know the sounds of virtually everything, they were also wonderful imitators, quite often singing back to the birds, for the sheer joy of it. © 2018 Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com. All Rights Reserved.

In this episode of EcoJustice Radio, host Jack Eidt speaks with Ryan Killackey, filmmaker of the award-winning documentary film set in the Ecuadorian Amazon, "Yasuni Man." Plus, Zoe Cina-Sklar, campaigner for the #EndAmazonCrude effort by Amazon Watch, shares how California communities can play a powerful role in the fight for a just transition off fossil fuels. Interview by Jack Eidt from SoCal 350 and WilderUtopia Host and Engineer: JP Morris Executive Producer: Mark Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 16 Watch "Yasuni Man" in upcoming film festivals near you: www.yasuniman.com Join Amazon Watch's campaign to #EndAmazonCrude: www.EndAmazonCrude.org Follow EcoJustice Radio on KPFK 90.7FM, the weekly program brought to you by SoCal 350 Climate Action: www.SoCal350.org

Ben (left) and James In 2015 Benjamin Sadd and James Trundle decided to have an adventure and make a film.  They wanted to build on their previous journeys and do something on a grander scale so they came up with the idea of building a dugout canoe.  They traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon, lived in an indigenous community that helped them build the canoe, then launched it into a river and continued their adventure through Ecuador's Yasuni region - one of the most biodiverse areas of the world.  These 2 months are captured in their award-winning film DugOut - An Amazon Adventure which you can find online at vimeo.com  You can learn more about Benjamin at trailtoanywhere.com and more about James at jamestrundle.com.  Ben and James, welcome to The Pursuit Zone.

1-Ucraina: la cautela di Mosca di fronte al caos politico. La comunità ebraica preoccupata per gli episodi di antisemitismo a Kiev. 2-” Il referendum non è legale “ : il no di Rajoy all'indipendenza della Catalogna. 3-L'auterity arriva al Pentagono...Ridimensionato l'esercito. ..4-Ripresa più sostenuta nella zona euro. I dati da Bruxelles. 5-Lotta alle holding mafiose: l'auroparlamento approva ..la normativa per la confisca dei beni. 6-Messico: le questioni irrisolte dopo l'arresto del re dei narcos. L'intervista di Esteri. ..7-Febbre del petrolio in Ecuador: la battaglia delle comunità indigeni per salvare il parco naturale di Yasuni.

1-Ucraina: la cautela di Mosca di fronte al caos politico. La comunità ebraica preoccupata per gli episodi di antisemitismo a Kiev. 2-” Il referendum non è legale “ : il no di Rajoy all'indipendenza della Catalogna. 3-L'auterity arriva al Pentagono...Ridimensionato l'esercito. ..4-Ripresa più sostenuta nella zona euro. I dati da Bruxelles. 5-Lotta alle holding mafiose: l'auroparlamento approva ..la normativa per la confisca dei beni. 6-Messico: le questioni irrisolte dopo l'arresto del re dei narcos. L'intervista di Esteri. ..7-Febbre del petrolio in Ecuador: la battaglia delle comunità indigeni per salvare il parco naturale di Yasuni.

1-Ucraina: la cautela di Mosca di fronte al caos politico. La comunità ebraica preoccupata per gli episodi di antisemitismo a Kiev. 2-” Il referendum non è legale “ : il no di Rajoy all'indipendenza della Catalogna. 3-L'auterity arriva al Pentagono...Ridimensionato l'esercito. ..4-Ripresa più sostenuta nella zona euro. I dati da Bruxelles. 5-Lotta alle holding mafiose: l'auroparlamento approva ..la normativa per la confisca dei beni. 6-Messico: le questioni irrisolte dopo l'arresto del re dei narcos. L'intervista di Esteri. ..7-Febbre del petrolio in Ecuador: la battaglia delle comunità indigeni per salvare il parco naturale di Yasuni.

Institute for the Study of the Americas Mining and Development in the Andes: Alternative strategies for mining-based economies Placing value on the environment: Ecuador’s Yasuni project Dr. Carlos Larrea Mining activity has the potential to...

Institute for the Study of the Americas Mining and Development in the Andes: Alternative strategies for mining-based economies Placing value on the environment: Ecuador’s Yasuni project Dr. Carlos Larrea Mining activity has the potential to...