Hundreds of oil spill sites threaten Amazon Indigenous lands, protected areas

Mongabay
Sep 12, 2023, 6:58 am146 pts
More than 2,800 kilometers (1,740 miles) of pipelines run through the Amazon and along the coasts of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. These hundreds of pipelines transport millions of liters of crude oil from the most delicate ecosystems through to the cargo ships that will transport them to their final…

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