The president of Ecuador has warned the country's opposition-owned newspapers that he may force them to go digital to save paper.
In a Twitter statement, Rafael Correa suggested that if enough signatures were gathered for a referendum, he would propose that all newspapers should be published online "to save paper and avoid so much indiscriminate cutting of trees. We'll see 'who is who'".
It is believed the president is targeting opposition-owned papers that have backed a proposed plan to block oil exploration in the pristine Yasuni National Park.
Correa had originally planned to protect the park's biologically diversity Mr Correa announced last week that he had asked congress to back drilling in Yasuni, after several wealthy nations backed out of a conservation plan which would have involved them paying him compensation not to explore the area.
The original plan was aimed at protecting wildlife - a single hectare of the Yasuni national park contains more tree species per hectare than in all of North America - and the livelihoods of indigenous people who fear oil drilling would damage their ancestral homeland.
In return, the government had hoped to receive $3.6bn (£1.9bn) from the international community over 12 years, or about half the value of the oil it would be leaving in the ground.
But he has now warned newspapers opposed to oil exploration in the park But after several wealthy nations rejected his idea he asked for the support of congress to back an oil exploration programme, saying it was essential for the country to expand its oil reserves in order to direct more state spending towards the poor.
The president has previously won popular support among Ecuador's low-income majority with heavy spending on welfare, health, education and infrastructure projects.
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