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Stop road building in Ecuador´s last intact remains of Choco-rainforest by CODESA logging company

Stop road building in Ecuador´s last intact remains of Choco-rainforest by CODESA logging company

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Diese Petition wurde von Oliver K. erstellt und repräsentiert nicht unbedingt die Ansichten der Avaaz-Gemeinschaft.
Oliver K.
hat diese Petition erstellt, an folgende Zielperson/Zielgruppe:
Ministry of Environment, Ecuador , Minister Marcela Aguinaga Vallejo or MCS. Tania Villegas
Problem description:
The intentions to build the road are from a logging company named CODESA. They do not have environmental permits. However, they have started to build one of the roads anyway. That is a way to pressure the Ministry of Environment to give the permits. Their only purpose is to get the semi hard wood from this primary forest to make plywood. This is the only territory outside the Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve where they can find these trees. Once the roads are opened, the small logger will get there too and get all the rest of the trees. Many of the hardwood trees are on the way of extinction.

The area also hosts various species of highly endangered mammals like the jaguar of the west of the Andes, which is a subspecies and the most threaten feline in South America, the brown headed spider monkey, endemic and with very few members left, mostly present in this region the list is big including the last populations of Great Green Macaws, Umbrella birds, and much more.

The roads that want to build will segment all this territory, isolation many of this individuals and bringing more hunters into the areas as well. Besides all this, this region is one of the rainiest areas in the world giving fresh water to hundreds of thousands of people in the Province of Esmeraldas.

The roads are to be built outside the southern part of the Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve. And the only reason as I have mentioned it before is to extract the wood that cannot be found anywhere else in the Ecuadorian Choco. One road will go east from Cristobal Colon in Esmeraldas along Rio Canande to Rio Bravo, The other raod will go north across Rio Canande up the Canande mountain range and down to Rio Gualpi.

Please we need all the support of the world to stop this environmental crime.

About the forest:
The primary forests of the Ecuadorian Chocó house more than 10,000 species of vascular plants, of which 25% are considered endemic. Among the endemic plant species are Trianaeopiper and Cremosperma. Other typical species are hemi-epiphytic lianas of the families Ericaceae, Marcgraviaceae and Melastomataceae. The Ecuadorian Chocó is estimated to support 25% of the nation’s flora, or approximately 6,300 species of plants, 13% to 20% of which are endemic. The region is also home to more palm species than any other part of the world.
Climate information:
The project is situated in the Chocó-Darién-Eco region, a biodiversity Hotspot which reaches from the south-eastern portion of Panamá, along the western portions of Colombia and Ecuador, as far as north-western Peru. Within it, the Chocó bio geographic region (“the Chocó”) is globally recognized as one of the world’s most biologically and culturally diverse (Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund 2001). The Chocó provides habitat to an extraordinary wealth of plant and animal species. The average climate is hot and humid with an average annual temperature of 25°C. Whereas the coastal areas receive relatively little annual precipitation (550 mm in Portoviejo, 812 mm in Esmeraldas respectively 1568.0 mm in Muisne), precipitation increases towards the inland and near the Columbian coastline: San Lorenzo receives 2270.0 mm annually, and Santo Domingo 3131.0 mm. The northern coastal lowland is characterized by a humid tropical climate while the southern lowlands experience a rather subtropical dry climate with distinctive rain and dry periods. The rain season is from December to May.
Community Information
The Ecuadorian Chocó forest is inhabited by various ethnic minorities, the Afro-Ecuadorians forming the largest group with some 1 120 000 people. The second major group are the Chachí who have 29 communities in the Ecuadorian Chocó forest with a total of approximately 4 000 people. The third major indigenous group form the Awá, who have been traditionally living in the Chocó in Ecuador and Columbia and today have a total population of 3 500 in Ecuador. They comprise 22 communities and own a territory of about 12 000 ha. Together with the Afro-Ecuadorians they form the poorest ethnic minority of Ecuador. The Chachí, Awá and Afro-Ecuadorian communities have been present for a number of centuries, the Chachí having migrated from the Andes and the Afro-Ecuadorians from Colombia. The native language of the Chachí is Chapalaa´achi and although many also speak at least some Spanish, the language barrier may be a contributing factor to their little integration into local markets, particularly compared with Afro-Ecuadorians. However, Chachí and Afro-Ecuadorian communities have many similarities in their living conditions. Both use rivers as their only means for transport, they both live without electricity and running water, there is only primary education available in the communities and there is a lack of a healthcare system and people rely on traditional medicinal knowledge or have to go downstream to medical centers. Both tribes have been living in the area with relatively little effect on the forests as they utilized only a small proportion of the land. The vast majority of deforestation has taken place during the past 40 years with the arrival of logging companies and mestizo communities. The latter have colonized the area since the 1970s, following road construction providing access to the area from rural Ecuador and Columbia. Their numbers have been increasing rapidly as they have obtained land rights from the government or Chachí and Afro- Ecuadorian communities. Whereas Chachí and Afro-Ecuadorian tribes have been living in the region for many years without causing significant damage, mestizo colonists have converted much of their land into agriculture. Mestizo colonization is driven by poverty and lack of access to land. The rise of the minifundio (subsistence farming), in combination with high population density in the highlands of Ecuador has given rise to mestizo migration into the relatively uninhabited Chocó forests and indigenous lands (Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund 2001).

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