27.06.2019 - 16:31 [ teleSUR ]

Ecuador’s Waorani Set to Save Their Amazon Homeland From Oil Industry

This comes as Moreno’s administration is planning to sell off seven million acres of rainforest territory, some of the most biodiverse on the planet, to the international oil industry. As non-governmental organization Amazon Frontlines, explains, if exploited, 70 percent of the oil would be shipped up to refineries in California, and eventually pumped at gas stations across the United States.