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Les autorités locales de Quito, capitale en forte croissance de l'Équateur, soucieuses de protection de la nature environnante, se heurtent aux installations illégales des pauvres sur les versants boisés de l'agglomération, véritables poumons verts de la ville. La condamnation publique du grignotage des versants par les bidonvilles n'a d'égale que la discrétion des réactions face aux constructions de standing qui gagnent aussi ces espaces de qualité.
Quito : a socially disputed environment The local authorities of the fast-growing capital of Ecuador, Quito, in their efforts to protect the natural environment, are coming up against a problem of illegal settlements of poor households on the city's woodland slopes, its essential green lungs. The extent of public condemnation of the encroachment on the slopes by squatter settlements is only equalled by the discretion of the reactions to prestige buildings that are also appropriating these quality spaces.