# Ecuador sold one third of amazon to Chinese oil company

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/04/amazon-ecuador-oil-sold-third-to-chinese/
- Published: 2020-04-29T00:20:49-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

Amazon Ecuador oil is planning to auction off three million of the country’s 8.1
million hectares of land. Again, from the Amazon Ecuador oil. For I mean that’s 
of pristine Amazonian Ecuadorian [rainforest](https://greenlivingguy.com/2012/02/is-deepwater-horizon-the-new-ecuador/)
to Chinese [oil](https://greenlivingguy.com/2005/07/rising-demand-puts-pressure-on-proven-reserves-which-have-not-seen-a-significant-boost-in-30-years/)
companies. That’s as Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports. So it seems this report
comes as [oil](https://greenlivingguy.com/2016/06/oceana-uncovers-documents-showing-big-oil-giving-up-all-arctic-ocean-oil-and-gas-leases/)
pollution forced neighboring Peru. All to declare an [environmental state of emergency](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/04/peugeot-onf-forestry-carbon-sink-in-the-amazon/).
That’s in its northern [Amazon rainforest](https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/05/djibouti-can-meet-100-of-energy-demand-through-renewables-by-2020/).

#### Ecuador Owed China

First of all, Amazon Ecuador oil is owed [China](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/01/dont-give-up-yet-since-us-solar-companies-can-compete-with-china/)
more than $7 billion. That’s also more than a tenth of its GDP; as of last summer.

[⌊Amazon Ecuador oil⌉⌊Amazon Ecuador oil⌉[

What the hell happened to Earth’s or [Amazonia](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/12/maap63-shows-patterns-of-deforestation-throughout-the-entire-colombian-amazon/)
Rights?!?!?! I also find this totally phuckin’ appauling. For we must Mobilize the
earthites! For somehow, we gotta stop this from happening. VERY disappointing Ecuador.-
Mort.

#### As I’ve written before:

Amazon Conservation, in collaboration with Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), has just
posted [MAAP #63](https://maaproject.org/maap-deforestation-patterns-colombian-amazon/):
Patterns of Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon.

#### Columbia Amazon

The vast [Colombian](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/09/solar-power-lights-up-amazon-communities-fighting-dirty-energy/)
Amazon covers approximately 119 million acres, 6.2% of the total Amazon biome (RAISG,
2016). This region contains a diverse variety of [ecosystems](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/05/experts-launch-project-to-assess-drought-effects-on-ecosystems-and-how-communities-can-adapt/),
including montane, lowland, and flooded rainforest. Importantly, much of this region
has remained intact. For that’s partly due to Colombia’s longstanding civil conflict.
One that may be coming to an end.

This [report](https://amazonteam.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a3a7d2f2de1d4d1989385d1a81a23f2d)
has two objectives: 1) Illustrate the major deforestation hotspots in the Colombian
Amazon between 2001 and 2015 and 2) Focus in on one of the most important hotspots,
located in the Caquetá department.

This map, created by Esri’s emerging hotspot software. It identifies forest loss
trends over time. Especially to identify new, intensifying, diminishing, and sporadic
deforestation hotspots (2001-2018).

![According to the California-based NGO Amazon Watch, seven indigenous groups who
inhabit the land claim that they have not consented to oil projects, which would
devastate the area's environment and threaten their traditional way of life. Ecuador
map Ecuador map Photograph: Graphic ](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/
uploads/2019/02/img_6861.jpg?resize=300%2C180&quality=52&ssl=1)

According to the California-based NGO Amazon Watch, seven indigenous groups who 
inhabit the land claim that they have not consented to oil projects, which would
devastate the area’s environment and threaten their traditional way of life.

![Ecuador map](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/
maps_and_graphs/2013/3/26/1364324021916/Ecuador-map-001.png?w=736&ssl=1)

####  Ecuador map Photograph: Graphic

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>”We demand that public and private [oil](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/09/us-report-shares-deepwater-horizon-blame-mostly-on-bp/)
companies across the world not participate in the bidding process that systematically
violates the rights of seven indigenous nationalities by imposing oil projects in
their ancestral territories,” a group of Ecuadorean organised indigenous associations
wrote in an [open letter](http://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2013-confeniae-letter-against-xi-round.pdf).

Source: [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/26/ecuador-chinese-oil-bids-amazon)