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Napo saki, Pithecia napensis Many types of mammals live within the national park both in water, on land, and in the air. Pteronura brasiliensis, commonly known as the giant otter, an endangered species endemic to rivers in and surrounding the national park, are forced to adjust to constant seasonal changes in water levels that concurrently alter food availability. [8]
On one location in neighbouring Yasuní National Park, 307 species of trees/hectare were counted. The river system covers the rivers Aguarico, San Miguel and Cuyabeno along with their tributaries. Aforementioned two lake systems, both north of the Aguarico River have 13 lakes, while the largest lake, Zancudo Coche is South of the river.
More recently, the body of a 37-year-old rare wood poacher, Luis Castellanos, was found in March 2008 in the Yasuni area, with nine iron-headed spears jutting out of his stomach. According to local officials, the killers are presumed to have been Tagaeri or the Taromenani.
It is the first major, navagable river south of the Napo and forms the northern border of Yasuni National Park. Unlike the Napo, the Tiputini has a relatively deep, narrow channel carved deep into the clay of the Amazon Basin , and it often fluctuates in depth by several meters from day to day.
Yasuni can mean: Yasuní National Park, Ecuador Yasuní-ITT Initiative, a proposal to refrain from exploiting oil reserves within the park; Yasuní River, in Ecuador; Yasuni antwren, a bird; Lophostoma yasuni, a species of bat; Osteocephalus yasuni, a species of frog
Olympic Rings display at Chitose Air Show 2013 JASDF Kawasaki C-1 aircraft at the 2010 Iruma Air Show. March - Komaki Air Show; April - Kumagaya Air Show; May - Hofu-Kita Air Show; May - Miho Air Show; July - Chitose Air Show; September - Misawa Air Show (also a US Air Force base) [2] September - Komatsu Air Show; September - Akita Air Show ...
The Yasuní-ITT Initiative was a project that attempted to keep over a billion barrels of oil in the ground under the Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon.The initiative was launched in 2007 by Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and offered a perpetual suspension of oil extraction from the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini oil field (ITT) in return for $3.6 billion from the international ...
The Napo moist forests ecoregion covers part of the Amazon basin to the east of the Andes in the north of Peru, the east of Ecuador and the south of Colombia. Spread over 25,174,684 hectares (62,208,000 acres), [1] the ecoregion extends from the foothills of the Andes in the west almost to the city of Iquitos, Peru in the east, where the Napo and Solimões (Upper Amazon) rivers join.