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Low-Impact Yasuní Development Threat to Biodiversity

 

The researchers re-emphasize the global conservation significance of Yasuní and support the recommendations of the study by Bass, et al. in 2010 to permit no new terrestrial access routes into Yasuní or its buffer zone, and establish a moratorium on future exploration and extraction operations.

 

Check the following link to read/download the Full Study – “Oil Road Effects on the Anuran Community of a High Canopy Tank Bromeliad (Aechmea zebrina) in the Upper Amazon Basin, Ecuador”:
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0085470

 

Source: By Jayme Blaschke, Texas State University.