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A camera trap program in Ecuador's embattled Yasuni National Program has struck gold, taking what researchers believe is the first ever film of a wild nocturnal curassow (Nothocrax urumutum). In addition, the program has captured video of other rarely-seen animals, including the short-eared dog and the giant armadillo. 
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Companies could start extracting oil underneath key biodiversity reserve on Earth by 2016 Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after...
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A new survey reveals richest biodiversity, and new species, of amphibians and reptiles in Peru's Manú National Park.
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Manú passes Yasuní as the park or protected area with the highest number of amphiban and reptile species on the planet!
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NPR Episode 433: Holding A Rainforest Hostage? NPR Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest, is home to jaguars, giant otters, and the golden-mantled tamarin.
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Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni rainforest
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Oil drilling can have devastating consequences for the environment, as drilling activity results in deforestation, loss of biodiversity, soil and aquatic pollution, and air pollution.
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Yasuni continues to amaze...how can this place be under threat? Stop the madness.
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Often touted as low-impact, remote oil roads in the Amazon are, in fact, having a large impact on frogs living in flowers in the upper canopy, according to a new paper published in PLOS ONE.
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Often touted as low-impact, remote oil roads in the Amazon are, in fact, having a large impact on frogs living in bromeliads in the upper canopy.
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Ecuador halts pioneering plan to conserve rainforest
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