The state, oil, and the fight for yasuni national park. The demise of a new conservation and development policy. The initiative was launched in 2007 by president rafael correa which offered a perpetual suspension of oil extraction in part of the yasuni national park called ishpingotambocochatiputini itt in return for. Call for a referendum about the itt oil exploitation, which was accomplished by the yasunidos coalition, and the recognition of peoples voice. Tiputini sector of yasuni national park in exchange for compensatory 3. Download pdf save cite this item table of contents.
The main purpose of the paper is to compare this policy option with. Evaluating the ecuadorian governments decision to abandon the yasuni itt initiative in june 2007, a big idea from a small country was unveiled to the world by the thenrecently elected president of ecuador, rafael correa, in the form of the yasuni itt initiative. Ecuador extractive imperative and the itt initiative. Campaign for way out from extractivism, as the slogan yasunizar suggests. The yasuni itt initiative was a project that attempted to keep over a billion barrels of oil in the ground under the yasuni national park, a biosphere reserve in the ecuadorian amazon. Itt proposal by the government of ecuador to keep the oil in the ground in the untouched, highly biodiverse ishpingo. Yasuni national park itt oil extraction, ecuador ejatlas. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the yasuni itt initiative. Dsfs mission is focused on international biodiversity conservation. This initiative proposed a moratorium on oil activities in the ishpingotimbocochatiputini itt blocks within the. We have 2 free yasuni vector logos, logo templates and icons. The initiative was the proposal by the government of ecuador to. Toward new imaginaries show all authors, matthieu le quang.