“It is sad to see that the program has less and less funding, and that is not going to facilitate a reduction in the deforestation rate,” Ron says.Another ongoing environmental issue in Ecuador is the expansion of extractive activities. The attorney general’s office reported injury of one person in a tweet translated from Spanish.
We are not prepared, and we are not investing in understanding how we are going to adapt. The activities consequently had put pressure on Samples of fishing and bathing water found concentrations ranging from 40 nanograms per liter to 1,486 nanograms per liter. “It started as a popular initiative but soon reached the level of the National Electoral Council, which authorized it, and then the consultation was carried out with massive participation. “How can a country that, until recently, boasted that it was very good at every economic issue not have wastewater treatment plants in its main cities?” she says.Ecuador’s capital, Quito, dumps all of its wastewater into the Machángara River, which flows into the Guayllabamba River. “It is sad to see that the program has less and less funding, and that is not going to facilitate a reduction in the deforestation rate,” Ron says.Another ongoing environmental issue in Ecuador is the expansion of extractive activities. To Encalada, the mining boom in Ecuador seems more urgent than oil extraction. The natural drinking water is Two years ago this month, Ecuadorans were asked if they agreed to increase the area of the intangible zone of Yasuní for indigenous peoples in isolation by at least 50,000 ha (about 123,600 acres) and reduce the area of oil exploitation authorized by parliament from 1,030 ha to 300 ha (about 2,550 to 740 acres). Calculating that 28 nanograms per liter of water corresponds to a lifetime cancer risk of one in 100,000, the United States environmental agency recommends that the level of these hydrocarbons in ambient water be reduced to zero.But the Ecuador drinking water samples were found to have concentrations ranging from 33 nanograms per liter to 2,793 nanograms per liter. To Encalada, the mining boom in Ecuador seems more urgent than oil extraction. indirectly through the sea food chain), business (fishing, tourism, etc. There is a good precedent for what could happen, and it is the same as what is happening today inside the park with a road that opened in the 1990s for the extraction of what was produced in the northern blocks,” he says. “But from then on, the rest of the chain is disastrous. "Those exposed to the oil had a higher occurrence of abortion, elevated rates of fungal infection, dermatitis, headache and nausea," the report said, summarizing a separate study of 1,465 Amazon residents by a local health group, the Ecuadorean Union of Popular Health Promoters.Primary pollution sources are unlined waste pits, earthen tanks filled with a toxic stew from the oil production and separation process -- contaminated water, muds and oil. However, he says he recognizes that some reserves have benefited from the program and that it has been an effective way of showing support for those who voluntarily protect their forests. One of these cities is Zamora, the capital of Zamora-Chinchipe province. growth, fishing, and tourism. then tip over into the sea, forcing the crew to jump off the ship as it began the oil spilled in a given year, it is advisable to look at trends or decade “For example, a road that was built less than five years ago — which goes from Quito to Tena and had a large investment — is already destroyed by the high amount of rain we received in the area last year. Ecuador’s environment But the Ecuador drinking water samples were found to have concentrations ranging from 33 nanograms per liter to 2,793 nanograms per liter. "Dermatoses and other skin problems apparently related to oil contamination were observed in residents near oil facilities." Approximately 600 miles or 1,000 kilometres from the west Ecuadorian coastline, a paradise of 172 islands, islets, and rocks is home for one of the world’s highest calibre of biodiversity. Estimation of pollution in Ecuador, using perception. to capsize in ocean waters.The situation is under control since the Deterring oil spills from occurring requires a combination of laws (e.g., Between 1990 and 2018— just over 2 million ha (4.9 million acres) of forest were lost in Ecuador.“The most recent data that I have knowledge of showed a deforestation rate of more than 70,000 hectares [about 173,000 acres], which is a very high figure for a country the size of Ecuador,” says Santiago Ron, an Ecuadoran biologist and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE).Ron says that for its size, Ecuador has the highest annual deforestation rate of any country in the Western Hemisphere, “which is disgraceful.” He adds that “changing that tendency should be the main challenge for this year. life’ and it needs to be preserved and not wasted.Spreading awareness regarding water “[A]nd that is why the CNE states that there is no right to consultation. Residents of Girón had rejected the Loma Larga project, a gold-mining venture in the Quimsacocha páramo. “In Ecuador, the oil tanker moved into the background, but what’s coming are large-scale mining projects in the south. Water pollution is more apt than any other type of pollution to be associated with the textile industry by the general public, mainly because, when it occurs, evidence of its existence in the form of coloured dyestuffs from dyeing and printing or detergent foam from scouring or washing is clearly visible. Bayón, from the Critical Geography collective, says the government publicly questioned the popular decision.“The government was trying to delegitimize the consultation, but they cannot do that because it has all its legal procedures in check,” he says.