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Ostensibly to protect them, Ecuadorean authorities in 2006 drew lines on the map to define an "intangible zone" in the southern part of the Yasuní and the Waorani tribal lands, with entry barred to any outsiders and all economic activity.
The EIA summary, which makes no mention of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative or the indigenous people in "voluntary isolation" or a supposedly "intangible zone" established to protect them, was written by a Quito-based consultancy called VVP, whose legal representative is named as Vinicio Valarezo Peña.
Livestock was allowed to remain in the Protected Area grazing outside the Intangible Zone ([Candia et al. 1993]).
And other oil fields are being developed to the east and south, in effect surrounding Yasuni's uncontacted tribes in the so-called intangible zone.
Of course eBay, Amazon.com and others have their servers located in geographic space somewhere, but they make their money in the intangible zone of electronic transfers.
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In Ecuador, the government created a Zona Intangible (Untouchable Zone) to protect the territory of its two known isolated groups from oil development in 1999 and delimited the 7,580-km2 zone via Presidential Decree in January 2007.
Moreover, that 'intangible zone' was described as a form of 'minimum' protection for the IPI – because it wasn't clear how far their territories extended – by a 'National Policy on Peoples in Voluntary Isolation' adopted by Correa just three months later.
Indeed, the government has made this sudden u-turn despite the existence of a supposedly 'intangible zone' for the IPI which includes the southern quarter of Block ITT and had its boundaries defined by an Executive Decree published on Correa's very first full day in office.
Moreover, the Taromenane speared to death an illegal logger outside the northern limit of the Zona Intangible in March 2008 [61], the clearest evidence to date that they range outside the demarcated zone.
In regard to recommendations 4 and 5, we emphasize that Ecuador has already created two "untouchable zones" ("zonas intangibles" in Spanish) off-limits to oil activities, one in the southern part of Yasuní and the other just north of it in Cuyabeno.
The open space, and the intangible event — what Mr. Monastyrski called an "empty action" — were designed to create an "empty zone" where structured perception was obliterated, opening a momentary space for individual dreams.
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