Yasuní National Park
Yasuni National Park is in Ecuador between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Napo, Pastaza, and Orellana Provinces in Amazonian Ecuador.
The national park lies within the Napo moist forests ecoregion and is primarily rain forest.
The park is designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989.
It is within the claimed ancestral territory of the Waorani indigenous people.
Yasuni is also home to two uncontacted indigenous tribes, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane.
Many indigenous people use the riverways within the park as a main mode of travel.
Several waterways in the area are tributaries that lead into the Amazon River, including blackwater rivers high in tannins boasting vastly different floral composition than the main riverways.
A referendum on oil exploration in the national park is scheduled for August 2023.
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Members of the Waorani indigenous community demonstrate to promote a ‘yes’ vote in an upcoming referendum to end oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, in Quito.
A caravan of indigenous people and environmentalists will travel through Ecuador ahead of the popular consultation that seeks to stop oil exploitation in an important block of the Park, a rich biosphere reserve and part of the Amazon Basin.
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