WE ARE CAMPAIGNING TO… -Prevent the exploitation of the Yasuni and save its indigenous people - Protect the basic human rights of the people of the region

• Despite it's exceptional cultural and biological importance, mafias run the illegal logging of rare and precious trees above the ground whilst people are being killed, homes destroyed and local governments repressed in order to secure the oil reserves below the ground.

• Such activity has already destroyed the surrounding areas of forest and the protests of those whose homes have been destroyed have been met with brutality. A current protest for the clean water promised due to local water contamination, has lead to military occupation of the area, a curfew and arrests in the local government for supposed terrorist acts. Some of these military forces have private contracts with the oil companies.

• Extraction of the oil will cause (as has been well documented in surrounding areas); the final extinction of known and unknown species and ancestral tribes, environmental damage such as contamination and de-forestation and of course social, political and economic impacts such as disease, alcoholism, violence and conflict etc.