Yasuní National Park

…its borders, which lies in Yasuní National Park (established 1979), one of the world’s most biodiverse regions: the Ecuadoran government agreed to forgo development of heavy oil deposits (worth an estimated $7.2 billion) beneath the Yasuní rainforest if other countries and private donors contributed half of the deposits’ value to…

…to develop oil deposits in Yasuní National Park at the same time that Correa had been requesting that foreign donors contribute $3.6 billion to a fund in exchange for preventing oil drilling in the park. In May, after election officials rejected a petition for a national referendum on the matter…