Reuters: Ecuador is launching a one-of-a-kind initiative to protect a jungle reserve that contains not only a huge variety of plants and animals but 20 percent of the country’s crude oil. In exchange for not drilling for crude in a 200,000-hectare area of Yasuni national park, the government is asking rich nations, foundations and individuals to give it $3.6 billion. That’s about half of what President Rafael Correa says Ecuador would get from drilling in this part of Yasuni, where the …