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The Environment of Ecuador contains almost 20,000 species of plants, 1,500 species of birds, 341 species of mammals and more than 840 species of reptiles and amphibians. It includes
Mining in Ecuador has come at a great environmental cost, though it has provided some financial revenue.
World Heritage Sites
A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNES ...
like the Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador ...
, and magnificent parks such as the Yasuni National Park Yasuni can mean:
* Yasuni National Park in Ecuador
* The Yasuní-ITT Initiative, a proposal to refrain from exploiting oil reserves within the park
* Lophostoma yasuni, a species of bat
* Osteocephalus yasuni, a species of frog
* Yasuni antwren, a ...
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Damage to the environment
Mining in Ecuador has come at a great environmental cost, though it has provided some financial revenue. Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...
and oil exploitation
Petroleum is a fossil fuel that can be drawn from beneath the earth's surface. Reservoirs of petroleum was formed through the mixture of plants, algae, and sediments in shallow seas under high pressure. Petroleum is mostly recovered from oil dri ...
are other major problems. In 2007, president Correa proposed the Yasuní-ITT Initiative
The Yasuní-ITT Initiative was a project that attempted to keep over a billion barrels of oil in the ground under the Yasuni National Park, a biosphere reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The initiative was launched in 2007 by president Rafael Corr ...
so as to allow preserving the Yasuni national park, while still allowing to generate revenue for the country.
Environmental performance
In theYale University
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and Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
10 Environmental Performance Index
A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...
, Ecuador was ranked 30 in the world, ahead of some rich countries.
Ecuador had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification. Created by a team of 48 scientists, the FLII, in its measurement of 300m pixels of forest across the globe ...
mean score of 7.66/10, ranking it 35th globally out of 172 countries.
See also
*Water supply and sanitation in Ecuador ''This article has been written in 2007 with partial updates since then, including most recently concerning access in 2012. Please feel free to update it further. The Spanish article includes some more up-to-date information.''
Drinking water suppl ...
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