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Ecuador Ecological Disaster

While Ecuador seemingly promotes eco travel and seems a place where people want to take care of the environment, Ecuador does have its own natural disasters...

Ecuador is the site of a troubling ecological disaster that threatens the rainforest and indigenous groups. Billions of gallons of toxic waste water have been dumped into Ecuador’s rainforest – potentially one of the worst oil-related disasters on the planet.

Once a pristine rainforest, the area is now filled with more than 700 open-air toxic waste pits and hundreds of swamps and streams filled with oil muck.

Approx 18.5 billion gallons of highly carcinogenic toxic waste dumped into unlined pits dug out of the earth and into swamps, streams and rivers.

The amount dumped is far greater than that spilled during the Exxon Valdez incident. Experts consider the impact to be the worst ecological catastrophe on the planet other than Chernobyl.

Adventure Ecology is site showing all kinds of ecological disasters through arts and internet. They want to raise awareness on these matters.They also offer an artist in residence program, allowing artists to stay in certain places while working on art on eco awareness.

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