Saving the Venzuelan Amazon

Venezuela is set to hand over 12% of the nation's territory in the upper headwaters of the Amazon to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, with 150 companies from 35 countries poised to devastate the army-controlled 'special economic zone'. But resistance is growing, and a counter-proposal aims to protect the area's precious biodiversity, indigenous cultures and water resources in a new South Orinoco Mega Reserve. More…