Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Adopt-A-Shark

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A science foundation is proposing the "adoption" of sharks as a way to raise funds for research and environmental management aimed at benefiting this fish species in Venezuela's Los Roques archipelago, one of the most important shark habitats in the Caribbean.

Ecobreves – CHILE:: Business Invests in Environment

By IPS Correspondents and - -
From March to August of this year, private companies in Chile in the mining, sanitation, energy and grape/wine industries, spent 60 million dollars on developing "clean production", a sum authorities said was unprecedented.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: IUCN Presents New Web Site

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has created a new Internet site dedicated to promoting the incorporation of a gender focus in all sustainable development projects.

Ecobreves – REGION: Evaluating Ozone Protocol Compliance

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts from Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting in the Chilean capital to assess the region's progress in eliminating the production and use of substances that deplete the Earth's atmospheric ozone layer.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Care for Forests Instead of Growing Drugs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government of Colombia, a country that is a world leader in the production of illegal narcotics, is shifting its strategy away from crop substitution towards income substitution for peasant farmers who commit to taking care of forests and preserving the environment instead of growing coca, the raw material for cocaine, or poppies, used to produce heroin.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Capital to Begin Water Treatment

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government will begin construction next year on the first wastewater treatment station in the nation's capital, one of the most polluted cities in Central America.

Ecobreves – PERU: Multi-Million-Dollar Effort against El Niño

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru is investing 57 million dollars to reinforce protection of its rivers and irrigation canals in its northwestern coastal region to prevent the flooding that could be caused by El Niño, the cyclical phenomenon of a warm Pacific Ocean current that usually triggers extreme weather around the globe.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Fungus Threatens 100-Year-Old Trees

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican experts are assessing treatments for fighting an infestation that attacks the 'parotas' (Enterolobium ciclocarpum), trees that live over a hundred years, in the western state of Colima.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: FAO Funds Forests

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced that it will donate 195,000 dollars to shore up Costa Rica's National Forest Development project

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Calls for More Investment in Science

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Center for Tropical Agriculture for Research and Higher Education (CATIE) urged the Central American countries present at the World Summit on Sustainable Development to step up investments in science and technology as a means to achieve their development goals.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Environment Minister on Trial

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental organizations are demanding the resignation of Guatemala's environment minister, Carlos Cáceres Ruiz, in the wake of his appearance before the nation's Congress.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Wind Park Premieres

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Public Enterprises of the Colombian city of Medellín have opened bidding to build the country's first wind energy park in La Guajira, near the Caribbean coast.

Ecobreves – MERCOSUR: Municipalities Make Voice Heard

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The local governments of Mercosur (Southern Common Market), Bolivia and Chile are at the Rio+10 Summit in Johannesburg voicing demands for the renegotiation of foreign debt of poor countries, the elimination of tax havens and a tax on international financial flows in order to create a global anti-poverty fund.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Organized Garbage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government of the Argentine capital will change is garbage collection system to facilitate the work of informal paper and cardboard gatherers who make their living selling the material.

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: Removing Anti-Personnel Mines

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Nicaraguan Army will begin deactivating the anti-personnel mines along the banks of the Coco River, which runs along the Honduran border, and were planted with the devices during the civil war of the 1980s.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Cancer Kills More Farmers

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The farmers living in five municipalities near Rio de Janeiro die more often from stomach and esophagus cancer than the rest of the Brazilian population, and the most probable cause is exposure to agro-chemicals, states a recent report.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Coral Hybrids Considered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts at the Ecology Center of the Venezuelan Scientific Research Institute are studying the creation of hybrids of different coral types in order to apply the technique in environmental management and preservation of the species.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Go Bees!

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The medicinal preparations based on bee honey could replace up to 70 percent of the conventional medicine in Cuba, where bee-keeping has been the target of development for 20 years.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Emergency Declared Due to Strange Plague

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan government declared the area surrounding Izabal Lake, the country's largest, a "public catastrophe zone" as a result of the massive spread of a strange plant that is affecting fishing and water navigation.

Ecobreves – PERU: Environment Not a Priority

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Just three percent of the Peruvians consulted in a recent survey consider the environment a priority in political matters.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Clams Disappear

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The once-abundant population of mollusks on the Atlantic coast of Argentina's Buenos Aires province has declined at least 70 percent in some areas due to the impact of tourism, warn biologists from the University of Buenos Aires. In 1968, an average of 500 'almejas', bivalve mollusks, were found per square meter. Today, there are not even 60 per square meter, according to a new study.
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