'The historic vote sets a remarkable example for other countries in democratizing climate politics.'
ahead of the vote, the referendum is "the culmination of a groundbreaking proposal suggested almost two decades ago when Rafael Correa, who was president of Ecuador at the time, tried to persuade wealthy nations to pay his country to keep the same oil field in Yasuní untouched. He asked for $3.6 billion, or half of the estimated value of the oil reserves."
"Mr. Correa spent six years in a campaign to advance the proposal but never managed to persuade wealthy nations to pay," the Times noted. "Many young Ecuadoreans, though, were persuaded. When Mr. Correa announced that the proposal had failed and that drilling would begin, many started protesting."for the proposed ban on oil exploration in Yasuní—nearly 200,000 more than required to bring a referendum to a vote in Ecuador.
"Can you imagine the immense size of one million hectares?" Nenquimo added. "The recent fires in Quebec burned a million hectares of forest. And so the oil industry hopes to burn Yasuní. It has already begun in fact, with the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini oil project on the eastern edge of the park."
Ecuadorians' decision to reject oil drilling in the precious ecosystem drew applause from around the world.
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