Uncontacted Waorani in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve: Geographical Validation of the Zona Intangible Tagaeri Taromenane (ZITT)
A group of GIS experts adopting geographical approaches for mapping the Zona Intangible Tagaeri Taromenane (ZITT) in the Yasuní Biosphere try to explain how necessary is to recognize the indigenous right to their liveable territories. The Tagaeri Taromenane are two indigenous groups living in “Voluntary Isolation” in the Napo Moist terrestrial ecoregion, located in the western Amazon rainforest. This ecoregion is one of the most...
Repsol can drill for oil in a protected area of the Amazon rainforest of Peru
A region inhabited by indigenous people extremely vulnerable to any contact with outsiders is now under extreme threat. Repsol has been given the go-ahead by Peru’s ministry of energy and mines (MEM) to explore for oil in one “protected” and one proposed reserve in the north of the country in the remote Amazon rainforest bordering Ecuador. According to an environmental impact assessment ([EIA) of the company’s...
Turkey’s Tree Revolution – part 2: Everyday I’m chapulling*
From the EJOLT Project team, the second part of the Turkey’s “tree revolution”. How the Gezi Park case is linked to other environmental conflicts in Turkey? I’m Chapulling!* *(Turkish word now meaning “fighting for your rights”) The lack of consultation, the aggressive police intervention and the conversion of public space into private space explain why the occupation of Gezi park is not just meant to save...
Fracking: activists occupy Chevron in Poland
Peasants from local communities are occupying a piece of land to prevent the installation of Chevron for the exploration and exploitation of shale gas in the region of Zurawlow, Poland. The Polish shale-gas reserves used to be the most promising in the EU. But exploration results have so far disappointed Polish ambitions to free itself from its energy dependence on Russia. Recent weeks have seen companies such as Canadian Talisman and...
Turkey protests spread after violence in Istanbul over park demolition
At the beginning of the week environmental protest aimed at saving an Istanbul City centre park from shopping centre started. Demonstrations against Erdogan government in several cities as riot officers use tear gas to control protesters in Istanbul. Turkey has been engulfed by a series of protests across several cities after riot police turned Istanbul’s busiest city centre hub into a battleground, deploying tear gas and water...
Ejolt new report – Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil
By the new report of the Ejolt project “Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil” a reasoning on where, why and how fossil fuels can and should be kept in the soil. For the EU policymakers some recommendations: something should be done even if only to act according to their own climate change pledges. Total proven international fossil-fuel reserves contain about...
