LATEST UPDATES Volunteers Needed Solicitud de voluntarios en la comunidad de Junín Calling volunteers for the Junin community, Ecuador What You Should Know About Ascendant Exploration • UPDATE! 2/22/07 Ascendant Copper Corporation and its Troubles in Ecuador • BREVE HISTORIA DE LA RESISTENCIA A LA MINERIA EN INTAG, ECUADOR • TEN GOOD REASONS WHY NOT TO INVEST IN ASCENDANT COPPER CORPORATION • Interesting Facts About Ascendant Exploration • Lo Que Dice La Ascendant • Ascendant's Misleading Claims • UPDATE! 11/06 A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESISTANCE TO MINING IN INTAG, ECUADOR AND THE CURRENT THREAT OF ASCENDANT EXPLORATION | November 1, 2006 Take Action Please write to the Minister of Government and Police, Antonio Andretta A., with copies to Ascendant CEO Gary Davis and other groups and individuals listed here, expressing your concern that questionable and unverified accusations are being used to intimidate and defame Carlos Zorrilla, and urging that the circumstances of both the complaint and the police raid be fully and expeditiously investigated. Take Action > Por favor escribid al Ministro de Gobierno y Policia, Antonio Andretta A., enviando copias a las otras personas mencionadas a continuacion, expresando vuestra preocupacion de que se utilicen acusaciones dudosas y no verificadas para intimidar y difamar a un reputado y destacado dirigente comunitario, y urgiendo que se investiguen completa y rapidamente las circunstancias relacionadas con la acusacion y la incursion policial. Direcciones de contacto > Email the Toronto Stock Exchange and urge them to investigate Ascendant's business practices before allowing them on the exchange. Take Action > DECOIN Weblog: Latest Posts 8 Februrary, update EXPRESA POR TU APOYO A LAS COMUNIDADES DE INTAG (E... UPDATE 21 Enero 07- Actualizaciones -- Ascendant Copper's Contractors Hit with New Stop W... ***VIDEO CLIPS of DEc 2nd shootout/ Clips del enfr... Agresion a Campesinos de Junin Dec 23rd Update- REsponding to AScendant and call ... Government Rejects EIS !! / Estudio de Impacto re... Updated 12/12 Guards Freed / Actualizado 12/12 Com... Entrevista Ecuavisa de activista de la DECOIN / TV... DECOIN Weblog: Archive 05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004 06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004 07/01/2004 - 08/01/2004 08/01/2004 - 09/01/2004 09/01/2004 - 10/01/2004 10/01/2004 - 11/01/2004 11/01/2004 - 12/01/2004 12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005 01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 - 04/01/2005 04/01/2005 - 05/01/2005 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005 10/01/2005 - 11/01/2005 11/01/2005 - 12/01/2005 12/01/2005 - 01/01/2006 01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006 02/01/2006 - 03/01/2006 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006 05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006 09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006 10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007 DECOIN'S Work An Update of Current Work DECOIN was founded in January 1995 as a grass-roots environmental organization to find ways to conserve the unique biodiversity in the Intag area of northwestern Ecuador. The area is part of two of the world's most important biotic regions, the Tropical Andes, and the Chocó-Darien Western-Ecuadorian Biological Hotpots. The area of influence of our work encompasses several life zones, including tropical rain forests, and cloud forests. More... About DECOIN Every year, Ecuador loses another 2.3 percent of its forests - it has the highest deforestation rate in South America. In an effort to reverse the trend with local and regional eco-activism, the grass-roots organization DECOIN was founded in January of 1995. DECOIN (Organizacion para la Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag) is a regional organization created to battle perhaps the greatest threat to the forests: the mining companies that have thousands of acres of government-granted concessions throughout the Intag. Search DECOIN   Latest Environmental News Mines and Communities Website Features Letter by Cotacachi Mayor Firmly Against Ascendant  Sunday, January 23, 2005 The Mines and Communities Website empowers mining-affected communities in their struggles against damaging proposals and projects. They have joined DECOIN in protesting Ascendant's aggressive tactics in the Intag Region of Ecuador. Please read the letter by Cotacachi Mayor, Auki Tituaña, firmly against Ascendant's mining activities in the Intag. Posted by: DECOIN / 10:03 PM More Stories About Decoin and the Intag Ascendant Exploration: Illegal Mining Concessions in Ecuador | July 14, 2004 UPDATED! A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESISTANCE TO MINING IN INTAG, ECUADOR AND THE CURRENT THREAT OF ASCENDANT EXPLORATION | November 1, 2006 JUNIN MINING CONCESSION DEEMED ILLEGAL | July 2, 2004 Urgent Funding Request | June 22, 2004 Update on Junin: Yet Another Travesty of Justice, and What You Can do About It | 12 January 2004 All Updates With Clouds as Neighbors: Family Retreat in the Andes Battling Mining in Ecuador's National Parks The struggle to save Intag's forests and communities from Mitsubishi Ecuador Forest Communities Shut Down Mitsubishi Mine A Learning Experience: Keeping the Rainforests Green Gringa's in the Mist: Deadline Slave Turns Eco-Cop in Ecuador's Cloud Forest
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