Issue 413 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

July 2008

July 2008

Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa has said that his government is prepared not to extract oil from Yasuní National Park, a part of the Amazon rainforest - if Ecuador is compensated by the international community by at least $350 million per annum for the next 10 years.

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  • Timor-Leste’s landscape is still deeply scarred from the conflict that raged in 1999, after the Timorese population voted for independence from Indonesia.

  • Poems that confront human challenges – an international selection.

  • *Anna Chen* explores the battle of the non-iron lady vs the planet-hating peacock with an ode to crinkles for good measure.