Photograph by Sebastian Liste for TIME

“While Yasuni endured the ice age, it may not survive the oil age,” writes TIME Magazine’s Bryan Walsh, in an in-depth look at the initiative to keep oil in the ground in the Yasuni Park in Ecuador. Walsh continues, “Conservationists fear the effect of oil drilling in and around Yasuni because they’ve seen the damage that energy exploration can do to nature, and no one knows that better than Ecuadorians.”

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