Amazon Defenders: Rainforest Biodiversity and Big Oil with Paul Paz y Miño
This is an encore presentation of Part One of our Amazon Defenders series from the end of 2020. The Amazon River Basin of South America is home to half of the world's tropical forests, with 33% of all plant and animal biodiversity thriving in impenetrable wildernesses. In this episode, we focus on the Western Amazon to understand how activists are confronting the dirty legacy of oil extraction, stopping the expansion of new oil leases, and protecting the rainforest biodiversity. Oil corporations and their governmental enablers are pushing to drill deeper into the rainforest by building roads…
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