{"id":465674,"date":"2022-02-02T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465674"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:40:09","slug":"oil-spill-pollutes-nature-reserve-in-ecuadoran-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-spill-pollutes-nature-reserve-in-ecuadoran-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil spill pollutes nature reserve in Ecuadoran Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country&#8217;s environmental ministry said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly two hectares (five acres) of a protected area of the Cayambe-Coca national park have been contaminated, as well as the Coca river &#8212; one of the biggest in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The park of some 400,000 hectares is home to a wide variety of protected animals and holds important water reserves. <\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains caused a mudslide in the eastern Napo province on Friday, during which a rock struck and ruptured a pipeline owned by private company OCP Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, the country&#8217;s environmental ministry said Monday. Nearly two hectares (five acres) of a protected area of the Cayambe-Coca national park have been contaminated, as well as the Coca river &#8212; one of the biggest in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the ministry said in a statement. The park of some 400,000 hectares is home to a wide variety of protected animals and holds important water reserves. Heavy rains caused a mudslide in the eastern Napo province on Friday, during which a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}