Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Paraná River Losing Fish

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The long Paraná River has only 50 percent of the fish in its course through Argentina that it had 20 years ago due to over-exploitation, warns the Institute of Technological Development at the Littoral University.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Debate on Subsidies

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Governments from around the world are discussing curbing subsidies to fishing fleets at a new round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization’s Trade and Environment Committee that began in this Swiss city Friday, Mar 22.

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.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protecting Bush Dogs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The western Venezuelan state of Zulia is home to three of the 129 'Speothos venaticus', or bush dogs, that exist in captivity in the world.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: New Capital of Recycling

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipality of Pindamonhangaba, with its population of 126,000, has become the recycling capital of Brazil, reprocessing 82 percent of the aluminum containers produced in the country.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Connecting Environmental Journalists

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A network of Environmental Communications and Press was launched in Chile with the aim of uniting journalists interested in ecological issues.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Giant Squid Found

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The discovery of a squid measuring more than a meter and a half long and weighing 18 kg caused much excitement in Varadero, Cuba's leading international resort town, located 140 km from Havana.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Shark Hunt Triggers Alarm

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Dozens of boats are involved in shark hunts in areas of the Pacific Ocean, off the Colombian coast, where the practice is banned, say environmental authorities.

Ecobreves – ANTARTIDA: Melt Accelerates

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Larsen Ice Shelf, located east of the Antarctic Peninsula, lost 765 square km of its area in 23 days in February, due to the rising average temperature of the frigid continent, reaching 0.7 degrees Celsius, a 30-year record.

Ecobreves – PERU: Environmental Atlas Premieres

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Metropolitan Municipality of the Peruvian capital, with the support of 40 state and non-governmental entities, completed the preliminary version of the Lima Environmental Atlas, which contains the first diagnosis of the city in environmental terms, identifying natural resources and areas of serious contamination.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: : Debate on Children's Health

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 300 experts gathered last week in the Thai capital, at an international conference sponsored by the World Health Organization, to discuss the future of the world's children, who are exposed to the impacts of a deteriorated environment.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Neighborhood Defense

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A group of neighbors in the Chilean capital won the international prize for protection of cultural heritage, a 10,000-dollar award given by the Andrés Bello Foundation, for their defense of the historic Bellavista district, located on the banks of the Mapocho River.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Sugarmill Kills Fish

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Waste dumped by a sugarmill in Guantánamo, on the eastern extreme of Cuba, caused a fish-kill in the Guaso River, which forms part of one of the country's eight main river basins.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protecting a Refuge and Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Ministry of Environment, the FUDENA organization and the residents of the coastal state of Falcón, in northwest Venezuela, have drawn up an environmental management plan to recover the Cuare-Morrocoy region.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Finance and Environment Meeting

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Bankers, representatives from multilateral institutions and environmentalists from dozens of countries are to meet in Rio de Janeiro Mar 14-15 to discuss the role of the financial world in sustainable development.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA:: Women to Manage Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- A group of low-income women in Costa Rica is to receive training in administration and marketing to work at the Marine Park, an environmental tourism project that will be inaugurated Apr 23 in the port city of Puntarenas, on the Pacific coast.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Thousands of Fish Die

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Thousands of fish were found dead earlier this month in the Almendares River, the main river of the capital, in the second incident of this kind in Cuba in just six months.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Government Promotes Yacaré Farms

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazilian authorities are attempting to reactivate the farming of alligators, or yacaré, based on the large populations of the reptile found in the Pantanal marshlands of Mato Grosso state in the western part of the country.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Ancient Species Lost

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Approximately 10,000 hectares of old-growth forest were destroyed by fires in southern Chile in recent weeks.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Save the Bees

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Bees without stingers are abundant in the Amazon. They play an important role in preserving the forests and biodiversity because they are responsible for pollinating numerous plant species. But they are quickly disappearing because the local human populations destroy their hives to extract the honey.

Ecobreves – PERU: Unique Fate for Used Batteries

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipality of Surca, a residential district of the Peruvian capital, is promoting a battery collection program as a source of material to be used as filler in urban construction projects.
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