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Posted Mon Jan 23 2012: from BBC:
Race to save Ecuador's 'lungs of the world' park http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1327335422
The Yasuni National Park, known as "the lungs of the world" and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, is under threat from oil drilling. The race is on to find the funds required to develop new sustainable energy programmes that would leave the oil - and the forest - untouched.
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