Ecuadorians voted the oil drilling of a protected area (Yasuni National Park) in the Amazon.
Yasuni National Park –
- Location – Amazon region (Ecuador)
- One of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
- National Park and Biosphere Reserve is a Humid Tropical Rain Forest.
- Inhibited Tribes – Tagaeri and Taromenani (people of the road)
- Ishpingo Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil field within the National Park.
India must ramp up testing and maintain close watch on new global variants of COVID-19.
- EG.5 (Eris), BA.2.86 (Pirola) and FL.1.5.1 (Fornax) – New global variants of the COVID-19 virus
Invasive yellow-legged hornets spotted in US for first time.
Yellow-legged hornet –
- Other Names – Asian hornet or Asian predatory wasp
- Indigenous to Southeast Asia.
- Feeds on social bees and wasps, including honey bees.
- It has become invasive in several parts of the world.
- Referred to as the “murder hornet”.