Biodiversity

ENVIRONMENT-PORTUGAL: Dismal Outlook Despite Recent Innovations

By Mario de Queiroz
There is little good news on the environmental front in Portugal, which has been afflicted by severe drought and forest fires for nearly three years, and is making poor progress towards climate change goals.

ENVIRONMENT: Irrawady Dolphins Bowing Out

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
You can see them entertaining crowds at dolphin shows in theme parks or, even better, these friendly mammals can be glimpsed cavorting in their home waters, the Mekong River.

DRUGS-COLOMBIA: The Difficult Rescue of La Macarena

By IPS Correspondents
The manual eradication of coca leaf in an operation launched by the Colombian government on Jan. 19 is intended to save La Macarena National Park, one of the country's most important parks for its rich biodiversity, but environmental organisations say this effort isn't enough.

TRADE: WTO Biotech Ruling Reveals Special Interests, Say Critics

By Emad Mekay
A World Trade Organisation decision that called European safety bans on genetically modified food illegal under its global trade rules could usher in a new phase of potentially hazardous "Frankenfoods" worldwide and further erosion of local protections, say environmental and advocacy groups.

ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Ecologists Divided on Bachelet

By Daniela Estrada
The environmental movement in Chile has divergent expectations when it comes to the environmental policy to be implemented by President-elect Michelle Bachelet, a physician and socialist.

BRAZIL: A Push for More Local Scientists in the Amazon

By Mario Osava
Foreign experts conduct most of the scientific studies of the vast and biologically rich Amazon region. Brazil is trying to triple the number of local graduate students in related fields by 2010.

ENVIRONMENT: World Stands at a Crossroads

By Stephen Leahy
With 60 percent of the Earth's ecosystems in trouble right now, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, what will the future be like in 2050?

ENVIRONMENT: Biotech “Revolution” May Be Losing Steam

By Stephen Leahy
Just four countries plant 99 percent of the world's genetically engineered (GE) crops, despite more than a decade of hype about the benefits of agricultural biotechnology.

ENVIRONMENT: Where Europeans Are Still in the Dark

By IPS Correspondents
Fifty-seven-year-old Mihai Petre has lived with the dark and cold much of his life. For years now he has been trying to get a loan to buy a generator for his house, but no bank has wanted to advance him a loan.

CHILE: Pulp Mill Affair -an Environmental Watershed

By IPS Correspondents
The destruction of the Rio Cruces wildlife sanctuary was the most important environmental event in Chile in 2005, leaving behind a number of lessons and precedents that will influence the next government's policies on investment in and protection of biodiversity, according to environmentalists.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: A Year of Great Progress, But at a High Cost

By Mario Osava
A nun's murder, an environmentalist's self-immolation and a bishop's hunger strike shook Brazil in 2005, but also prompted unprecedented environmental achievements.

INDIGENOUS-CHILE: Official Body Threatens Legal Action against Dam

By IPS Correspondents
The National Corporation of Indigenous Development (Conadi) of Chile, a government advisory body, warned Friday that it will take legal action against the construction of a dam that would flood the land of 85 Pehuenche families.
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