Yasuni national park: 'We want to give it as a gift for humanity' - video

# Amazon rainforest

# Biodiversity

# Conservation

# Deforestation

# Ecuador

# Fossil fuels

# Indigenous peoples

# Land rights

# National parks

# Oil

# Pollution

# Trees and forests

# Water

# Wildlife

Ecuador's Yasuni national park – seen by many as the most biodiverse place on Earth – is at risk from rising extinction rates globally and local economic pressures to exploit the oil beneath the forest. Jonathan Watts visited it to discover the rich variety of fauna and flora firsthand, and hear from the people behind a plan to protect Yasuni by raising money from international donors to keep the oil in the ground

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