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Ecuador offers to leave Amazon oil untouched

Dec 23 2010  A valuable oilfield lying beneath a pristine expanse of Amazon rainforest will not be exploited - but only if the outside world agrees to give Ecuador $3.6bn. This groundbreaking scheme is designed to save Yasuni National Park. But little money has been raised so far and its fate hangs in the balance.  (1m 23sec)
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