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Ecobreves – CHILE: Gov't to Compensate Mining Pollution Victims

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Appeals Court of the southern Chilean city of Arica has ordered the government to pay compensations totaling 2.4 million dollars to 176 people who suffered serious harm from exposure to toxic mining waste imported from Sweden.

The Sins of the Salmon Industry

By Gustavo González and - -
Salmon farming in Chile, second in the world only to Norway, represents 30,000 direct jobs. But NGOs denounce the industry's labor practices.

''Lula frustrated our expectations''

By Mario Osava and - -
The Brazilian president has lacked the political drive to keep the promises he made to the country's indigenous peoples, Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral, a leader of the Amazonian communities, said in a conversation with Tierramérica.

Pilcomayo River to Be Saved from Ruin

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Work is under way to design a management plan to recover the clogged watershed of the Pilcomayo River, which extends across 270,000 square km in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Experts Debate Water Crisis

By IPS Correspondents and - -
To study the water crisis and propose strategies for more efficient use, more than 300 experts from 70 countries are gathering May 23-27 in Antigua, Guatemala, 45 km west of the capital.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Young Caimans to Be Released

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the coming weeks, Venezuelan environmental workers will release 328 young Orinoco caimans (Crocodylus intermedius) that were raised in captivity, Edis Solórzano, the Environment Ministry's wildlife director, told Tierramérica.
Macarena Natural National Park, Caño Cristales - Carlos E. Porras.

Anti-Drug Herbicide Returns to Colombia's Nature Parks

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombia will reinstate use of the much-criticized herbicide glyphosate to spray illegal drug crops in three nature reserves. Environmentalists condemn the move.
Montes Azules has lost 300 hectares of forest this year to fire. - Mauricio Ramos

Montes Azules – Forest of Discord

By Diego Cevallos and - -
Environmentalists are at odds about what to do with the Mexican reserve Montes Azules, an area under heavy pressure from several different conflicts, ranging from illegal logging to a guerrilla presence.

Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Water Trials

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Latin American Water Tribunal will present in March 2006, during the 4th World Water Forum to be held in Mexico, resolutions on 11 or 12 cases related to damage or threats to the region's water resources.

Ecobreves – PERU: Mining Companies Face Eco-Demands

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru will work beginning this month to force mining companies to meet their obligations for environmental reparations, lawmaker Jaime Velásquez told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Volunteers for Environmental Preservation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A team of environmentalists will begin volunteer work this month at the Buenos Aires Southern Coast Ecological Reserve in order to raise citizen awareness about the need to preserve species.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Plan for Sanitation Improvement in Barranquilla

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Colombian Caribbean city of Barranquilla was informed on May 6 that the national government has earmarked some 20 million dollars to improve the municipal sanitation system, which currently flows into the Magdalena River.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Manatees in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A reduced population of manatees (Trichechus manatus) is in danger of extinction due, among other factors, to destructive human activities in the ecosystems of the Guatemalan Caribbean.
Machu Picchu draws 2,500 tourists each day. - Mauricio Ramos

Threat to Machu Picchu: Too Many Tourists

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Peruvian government is finalizing a plan to protect the legendary Inca city of Machu Picchu. But the tourism industry opposes cutting the number of visitors to the Andean mountaintop ruins.

Clean Patagonian Energy from Wind and Hydrogen

By Marcela Valente and - -
A small village in the far south of Argentina hopes to free itself of dependence on fossil fuels by 2008.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fires Destroy 35,000 Hectares of Forest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Last month forest fires wiped out more than 35,000 hectares of forest in Honduras, Luis Eveline, of the Honduran forest development agency COHDEFOR, told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Bio-Insecticide Kills Dengue Mosquito

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil has at the ready a biological insecticide, Bt-horus, to fight dengue, a disease that threatens the population of two-thirds of the national territory.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Windmills Improve Rural Life

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Rural communities in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago will have water this month thanks to the installation of modern windmills to pump the vital liquid from the ground.
- Mauricio Ramos.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Not Much Garbage Recycled

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Just 17 percent of the 20,000 tons of waste produced daily in Venezuela is recycled, according to studies by the environmental organization Vitalis.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Majority Favors Smoking Restrictions

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ninety percent of the residents of the Chilean capital consulted in a survey said they favor the total ban on smoking in hospitals, schools and on public transportation.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Catfish Ban

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Colombian rural development institute, INCODER, is banning from May 1 to 30 the fishing, storage, sale and transport of the tiger shovelnose catfish (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum) in the Magdalena River basin, which crosses national territory from north to south.
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