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February 6, 2013
Holding a Rainforest Hostage?
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is an amazing rainforest, hoome to jaguars, giant otters, the golden-mantled tamarin and woolly monkeys. The park also sits on top of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil, worth billions of dollars. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, comments on NPR's Planet Money.