An old practice

Nowadays overexploitation

Main factor Industrialization

Oil extraction

Mining exploitation

Key information

55 million years

The lung of the planet

390 billion trees

forest contained within: Brazil (60%), Peru (13%), Colombia (10%)

8 million square Km

60000 vegetables species

1000 birds species

250 000 people

enormous oil reserve

Part I

main sources of deforestation:

human settlement

development of the land

Oil

Issues

increase of food commodities price.

Lack of laws.

Local farmers extend their pasture and land

The urbanization of Brazil

Construction of roads and hydroelectric dams

Mining operations

Oil and gas extraction

pollute watercourses

Part II

Long-term Consequences

Loss of biodiversity

Deterioration of the nature : aridity and fires

Contribution to global warming and loss of water

(oxygen) emitted by the forest

Social impact on the populations who took advantage

of the Amazon forest to live

Part II

Origins and goals of the project

The Yasuni park: one of the richest biosphere

reserve

920 million barrels of crude oil

Creation of an international fund

Part III

composed by former minister

of Ecuador and economists.President of Ecuador

announced in September 2007

to the UN (the United Nations)

Expectation : $3.6 billion

Initiated by the

president of Ecuador

Creation of a team

The project Team

Deadline

31 December of 2008

The context

Favourable ideological outlook

Unfavourable economic outlook (the sub-prime crisis)

Project abandoned

Donation : $13.3 million (0.36%)

Pledges : $116 million

The promise of Rafael Correa : « Less than 1% »

The evolution of the project

Part III

Conclusion

Remember

Issues and consequences concerning the forest

New ideas and concepts (the Yasuni initiative)

Solutions

Legal exploitations

No new industrial activity

A new brainstorming

Mundial fund for developing countries

Which alternative to oil to avoid deforestation ?

Website : www.geo.fr

www.wwf.be

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com

http://terresacree.org/foretamazonienne.htm

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