Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Sanctuary for Iguanas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 320 iguanas, a threatened species in Venezuela, now are protected in a refuge in the central industrial city of Valencia, the work of an environmentalist couple with the backing of a private company.

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: Civil Society Has the Word

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Development Report 2003, published by the World Bank, will include an environmental development and conservation proposal drawn up by indigenous and ethnic leaders, academics and civil society representatives from throughout Latin America who gathered last week in Costa Rica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Recycling Educates and Pays

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental education project of Brazil’s Friends of the Environment, which is based on recycling efforts, improved the grades of 380 children last year in five rural schools of the Itabuna municipality, in the northeastern state of Bahia, and created new sources of income for their families.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: 'Green' Exports Grow

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The demand for Colombian organic products expanded last year 20 percent, says a report from the Foreign Trade Ministry.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Forests in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexico's Federal Environmental Protection Prosecutor will attempt this year to implement protection this year for eight of the 100 areas in the country undergoing intense deforestation, and will boost forestry inspections 38 percent, in an attempt to halt the annual average loss of 1.1 million hectares of woodlands.

Ecobreves – PERU: Urban Sprawl Threatens Nature Reserve

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Urban expansion in the northeastern Peruvian city of Iquitos, the largest of the Peruvian Amazon, threatens the survival of the nearby Alpahuayo Mishana reserve, one of the 200 white sand forests in the world.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: The Number of Homeless Multiplies

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The number of people sleeping on the streets in Buenos Aires has nearly tripled in just three months due to Argentina's economic crisis, the lack of jobs, and restrictions on circulating cash, which make even coins for handouts scarce.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Turtle Saved

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A giant sea turtle, of the endangered species Dermochelys coriacea, was treated and returned to the ocean by specialists from the Venezuelan Environment Ministry after it was found injured earlier this month on the beach in the state of Vargas.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA:: Sales of 'Environmental Services' Questioned

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government's program for selling environmental services threatens Costa Rica's biodiversity and undermines its conservationist purposes, warns the Costa Rican Federation for Environmental Conservation (FECON), the country's leading environmental network.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Organic Sugar Production Grows

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuba will place 5,000 to 7,000 tons of organic sugar on the international market this year. The product comes from sugarcane grown in soils treated with natural nutrients and without chemical pesticides.

Ecobreves – CHILE: New Santiago Forest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean government began the Santiago Forest project in April, a 180-hectare area in the nation's capital that will be home to native flora and fauna and serve as a recreation and environmental education area.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Return of the 'Chachafruto'

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The "chachafruto", or "balú", is a tree that produces a bean that is once again an essential part of the diet among the indigenous communities of southwest Colombia, the fruit of a 10-year project coordinated by the state-run National University.

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: Call for Protection of Children

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts from Canada, United States and Mexico are urging the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to draw up policies for protecting children from environmental threats, even if these are not yet sufficiently documented.

Ecobreves – PERU:: Preventing Earthquake and Climate Disasters

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru's Geology, Mining and Metallurgy Institute carried out studies of 18 watersheds and three geological basins in an effort to diminish the impact of natural disasters in the country's central mountain region and along the southern coast.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Dengue Alert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Health authorities in Argentina are attempting to control the propagation of the dengue-transmitting mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, in the northern provinces of Formosa, Misiones, Jujuy and Salta, where conditions are ripe for an epidemic of the tropical disease.

Ecobreves – ECUADOR: Tagaeri Peoples at War for Survival

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Workers of the petroleum and logging companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon fear new attacks by the Tagaeri, an indigenous group they blame for the deaths last month of two Colombian logging employees in the eastern province of Pastaza.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Evaluating Natural Wealth

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuela's National Institute of Parks, the non-governmental organization Vitalis, and other local and international groups propose creating a system to monitor and assess the natural wealth of the Canaima National Park, in the Venezuelan south.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Promoting Solar Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Costa Rica's Energy Directorate installed 662 solar panels or cells in the last three years to provide electricity to that number of poor families in rural areas.

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: New Round of Green Negotiations Convened

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Partners in environmental protection will arise from the so-called "Partenariat 2002", a meeting of small and medium-sized companies from Mercosur (Southern Common Market) and from the European Union (EU) to take place Apr 10-12 in this Brazilian city.

Ecobreves – CUBA: A Study of Biosphere Reserves

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts from Cuba and other countries will gather this month in Baracoa, more than 1,000 km east of Havana, to evaluate the status of and outlook for the biosphere reserves of this Caribbean country.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Activist Honored

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ignacia de la Rosa Pérez, who heads a 400-family project aimed at saving the mangroves of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, received an award Mar 9 from the private organization CAFAM as the most important Colombian woman in 2002.
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