2008

• Amnesty Exposes Unjust Criminalization of Environmental Activists
• Social and environmental impacts of oil palm
• Peru and Ecuador: The last Free Peoples besieged by oil and logging companies

2007

• Major success against mining in the Intag zone
• Indigenous peoples close to extinction because of illegal logging
• Uprising in demand of a country free from large-scale mining
• Public outcry demanding revision of the Agrarian and Forestry Plan
• Consolidation of resistance against mining in Intag
• The Awa People and their territory between political interests and economic pressure.
• The government faces a challenge in the Yasuni National Park

2006

• Zero community benefits from FACE PROFAFOR certified plantations
• Endesa-Botrosa’s certified plantation in Rio Pitzara (*)
• The power of corporate groups. The case of the local Ecuadorian FSC
• A strange “dialogue” for the promotion of tree monocultures
• From Mexico to Ecuador – twinned in history, memory and resistance
• A message from the Amazon against “environmental services”
• The Huaorani people of Yasuni Park are attacked by timber and oil groups
• Action and proposals against monoculture tree plantations
• Shrimp farming impacts on a mangrove reserve

2005

• Impacts of the Eucapacific Company on people and their environment
• Yasuni Park, oil and indigenous resistance

2004

• The Huaorani People of the Amazonia, self-isolation and forced contact
• Yasuni National Park threatened by Petrobras oil activities
• Certified shrimps
• Letter of thanks from Floresmilo Villalta
• Women from Sarayaku Against Terrorism Waged by the Army
• Floresmilo Villalta has been freed!
• The Nature Conservancy conspires with the United States Embassy and USAID for the adoption of the Biodiversity Bill
• Campaign to obtain the freedom of Floresmilo Villalta

2003

• Sharing experiences against monoculture tree plantations
• The people said no to plantations at a ministerial meeting
• The Sarayacu people request support against ChevronTexaco's operations
• Oil palm and forestry companies in the Choco bio-region

2002

• The Awa Federation's Experience in the Management and Conservation of its Territory
• Logging company dresses in green while destroying forests in Esmeraldas
• Clashes between indigenous group and loggers in the Amazon
• When people said NO to mining
• Forests and biodiversity are being privatised

2001

• Human shield in defence of the Mindo forest against oil pipeline
• Mangroves and shrimp farming companies
• Action to stop the oil pipeline continues
• Eucalyptus plantations in the Province of Esmeraldas
• Commercial exploitation of forest peoples
• Oil palm in the devastated Garden of Eden
• The President will fight "trench by trench" ... against ecologists
• Call for action to stop oil pipeline
• Action to save mangroves in Guayas

2000

• Mangrove replanting initiative in Ecuador
• Forestry Law for the enrichment of loggers
• Heart of palm cultivation results in deforestation
• Dutch carbon sink plantations: adding to the problem

1999

• The future of the Chachi indigenous people and their forests
• Ecologists are not terrorists
• Draft bill against mangroves defeated
• Oil exploitation banned in protected areas
• Government tries to hand over mangroves to the private sector

1998

• The Cofan's successful action against an oil well
• Greenpeace action to protect remaining mangroves
• Sign-on letter to protect UNESCO reserve from oil exploitation
• The patenting of Ayahuasca: IAF breaks with COICA
• Shell's activities in Ecuador

1997

• Protective Forests in danger
• Indigenous women against oil exploration
• Indigenous women defend the forest of Pastaza
• Chile: activists against mining in Ecuador arrested

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Primera Cumbre Amazónica Pichanaki - Chanchamayo - Junin - February 2008 - Only in Spanish

• Declaración de Quito sobre Agrocombustibles - Quito, 29th June 2007 (only in Spanish)

• Open letter to president Correa on the agroforestry plan - May 2007

• Propriété contre possession. Les conflits éco-sociaux liés aux plantations industrielles d’arbres dans le Sud - Julien-François Gerber - August 2006 (only in French)

• Declaración de la Red de Defensa de la Naturaleza, la Dignidad y la Vida - Quito, 28 August 2006 (only in Spanish)

• Monoculture tree plantations in Ecuador (Also available in Spanish)
  By Patricia Granda. August 2006 - This publication analyses the promotion of monocultures in Ecuador and the impacts that are already taking place among the local communities.

• For a True Forest Policy - Acción Ecológica - World Rainforest Movement - June 2006

• Puyo Declaration - International Workshop Meeting Environmental Services: Nature as Merchandise
  19 and 20 May 2006 - Puyo, Ecuador

• Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes. Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities. Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and WRM - May 2005. Also available in Spanish

• BOTROSA cannot be certified by FSC
  
• Letter and document by Acción Ecologica detailing violations to FSC Principles by the company ENDESA - BOTROSA
• Latin American Network requested FSC certification be denied to Ecuadorian logging company

• Carbon Sink Plantations in th Ecuadorian Andes
  Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree
  plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities
  Acción Ecológica / 2005

• Petrobrás promoverá injustiça ambiental ao ameaçar a integridade do parque nacional Yasuni e da populaçao indigena Huaorani
  september 2004

• Green Light for Impunity. Shrimp Business Certifications
  by Acción Ecológica - Ecuador
  July 2004

• “Poor, but honest petroleum workers (or, useful dulls)”
  by Eduardo Rojas H. (Economist)
  Ex – worker of C.E.P.E. (Ecuadorian Oil Owned-State Corporation) (now Petroecuador)

• Impactos de la aplicación de políticas sobre Cambio Climático en la forestación del Páramo del Ecuador
  Verónica Vidal i Oltra - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Floresmilo Villalta has been freed!
  Campaign to obtain the freedom of Floresmilo Villalta - marzo 2004.

• Cloud Forests photos, on the Western Andean Slopes around Mindo, about 1.5 hrs Northwest of Quito
  por Jutta Kill - SinksWatch

• Texaco faces $1billion lawsuit. A trial has begun in Ecuador's jungle town of Lago Agrio of the US oil giant ChevronTexaco, which is accused of polluting the country's rainforest and water resources.
  from BBC - OCT 22 2003

• Declaración de las organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil, indígenas y campesinas frente al Seminario Taller "Plan Nacional de Forestación y Reforestación"

• Ecologista Italiano deportado en forma violenta por protestar contra OCP (only in Spanish)
  Acción Ecológica - Noviembre 2002

• OilWatch Photo Exhibit. The Oil Flows, the Earth Bleeds. 10 Years of Resistance

• Experiencias de la Federación Awá del Ecuador en el manejo y conservación de su territorio
  ponencia preparada por: Hermes Cuasaluzán, Coordinador de Proyectos de la Federación de Centros Awá del Ecuador y Jaime Levy, Director de ALTRÓPICO (only in Spanish)

• Ecuador, política forestal y selva amazónica
  por Ivonne Ramos / Censat - julio 2002 (only in Spanish)

• Amazonia ecuatoriana: 10 años después de la Cumbre de la Tierra
  Análisis de la situación actual de los bosques amazónicos, en relación a su conservación, manejo y destrucción, teniendo como marco el cumplimiento o no de los acuerdos de Río.
  WRM - diciembre de 2001 (only in Spanish)

• Continúa campamento de pobladores de Mindo en oposición al OCP
  Acción Ecológica, 7 de enero de 2002  (only in Spanish)

• The New Heavy Crude Pipeline in Ecuador. Fueling a Second Oil Boom in the Amazon. by Amazon Watch, June 2001

• Plantaciones de eucalipto en la provincia de Esmeraldas: Un mito ecológico (only in Spanish)
  Acción Ecológica, Mayo 2001

• La aplicación de políticas sobre cambio climático en el sector forestal de Ecuador (only in Spanish)
  by Verónica Vidal

• Impactos de la aplicación de políticas sobre cambio climático en la forestación del páramo del Ecuador (only in Spanish)
  by Verónica Vidal

• Deforestación y monocultivos forestales en Ecuador: Las venas siguen abiertas
  Quito, setiembre de 1999 (only in Spanish)
  por Ricardo Carrere

• Estudio de Caso sobre las Causas Subyacentes de la deforestación y la degradación de los bosques: Reserva Ecológica y Bosque Protector Mache - Chindul, Provincia de Esmeraldas, Ecuador
  Domingo Paredes Antolín Tapuyo - FUNDACION NATURA - Septiembre, 1998

• Oil palm plantations pictures from Ecuador

• 2004
  - Environmental license for Petrobras at Yasuní National Park
  - Urgent support to arrested peasant / New: Floresmilo Villalta has been freed!
  - Campaña para lograr la libertad de Floresmilo Villalta (only in Spanish)

• 2003
  - Sarayacu struggle against oil companies
  - Asesinan ecologista amazónico defensor de derechos ambientales en la ciudad de Coca
  - Original anti-IMF medicine
  - Petición de solidaridad. Marcha en rechazo a la construcción del Oleoducto (only in Spanish)
  - The government threatens to use public force
  - Support requested for Ecuadorian communities (Portuguese version )
  - Stop the destruction of the Sarayacu Kichwa community sacred rainforest
  - Campaña para salvar al Cuyabeno

• 2002
  - Ecuadorian Armed Forces Evict Mindo Environmentalists
  - Activists Continue Forest Occupation to Block Pipeline Construction

• 2001
  - Worldwide actions against WestLB for financing rainforest destruction
  - OCP Oil Pipeline in Ecuador
  - Paso del OCP por Quito (only in Spanish)
  - The President will fight "trench by trench" ... against ecologists
  - Urgent petition: the financing of OCP (Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados) heavey crude pipeline.

• 2000
  - President of Ecuador vetoes "Trole Bus III" Law passed by Congress
  - Ecuatorian Ecologists menaced
  - Mailing campaign against the sale of mangroves

• 1999
  - The future of the Chachi indigenous people and their forests
  - Ecuador rainforest national park

LINKS

Amazon Watch
http://www.amazonwatch.org/

Amazonía por la Vida
http://www.amazoniaporlavida.org/

Acción Ecológica
http://www.accionecologica.org

The Sacramento Bee - By Tom Knudson - Bee Staff Writer
http://www.sacbee.com/denial

Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador
http://www.conaie.org/

Oilwatch
http://www.oilwatch.org.ec 

Fundación de Defensa Ecológica Ecuador
http://www.fundecol.org/  

FCSF Fundación Cabo San Francisco 
http://www.fcsf.org/

Comité Ecuatoriano para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente
http://www.cedenma.org/index.html

Comunidad kichwa de Sarayacu
http://www.sarayacu.com/

Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana
http://www.ecuanex.net.ec/confeniae/

RECOKA - Red de Comunidades Kichwas de Amazonía
http://www.recoka.org/

Ecuador resiste la amenaza petrolera
http://www.nopetroleo.net