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December 3, 2014

Environmental Activists Detained in Ecuador En Route to Lima Climate Summit 
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A caravan of environmental activists traveling to the United Nations
climate summit in Lima, Peru, has been stopped by authorities in Ecuador
and had their bus seized. Activists with the group Yasunidos departed
from Quito on Monday to denounce the extraction of oil from Yasuni
National Park, an area of the Amazon renowned for its biological
diversity. The group says they were subjected to seven stops in the
first 24 hours of their trip, and ultimately stranded by the side of a
highway last night, when Ecuadorean authorities seized their bus.

 

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