Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – CUBA: Repopulating Species Harmed by Hurricane

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuban experts are awaiting help from foreign institutions to save more than a dozen species that were thrashed by Hurricane Michelle last Nov 4 at the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden, 336 km from Havana

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Environment the Focus of Film Fest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 110,000 dollars in prizes will be awarded at the third International Festival of Environmental Film and Video, June 13-17, in the central Brazilian city of Goiás Velho.

Ecobreves – PERU: No Cable Cars

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Peruvian government has revoked a permit granted last year to an international company to build and operate a cable car system in the archeological sanctuary of Machu Picchu, due to the environmental impact implied by an increased flow of tourists.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Identification for Transgenic Foods

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Officials in San Carlos de Bariloche, a city in southern Argentina, decreed this month that foods produced with genetically modified material must be identified as such.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Concern for Indigenous Peoples

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Venezuelan government is to study the impact of a power line construction project extending from Venezuela into northern Brazil on the customs and lifestyles of the indigenous communities of the southeastern Great Savannah.

Ecobreves – PERU: The Desert Advances

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The desert is spreading in Lambayeque department, on Peru's northern coast, due to the irrigation of rice paddies, a practice that is increasing the salinity of the soils and transforming them into sand dunes like those that already encircle the valleys in the region.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Nature Reserve Draws Tourists, Criticism

By IPS Correspondents and - -
United States citizen Douglas Tompkins, a millionaire who founded the Pumalín Park, in southern Chile, hopes the government will declare the 300,000-hectare site a natural sanctuary in order to foment tourism and to preserve native forests and watersheds.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Genetically Modified Cotton

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Argentina's Agriculture Secretariat has given the green light - after more than three years of delays due to environmental and consumer fears - for the production of a genetically modified cottonseed that will reportedly reduce production costs by 20 percent.

Ecobreves – BRASIL: Refining Bio-Diesel

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Argentina's Agriculture Secretariat has given the green light - after more than three years of delays due to environmental and consumer fears - for the production of a genetically modified cottonseed that will reportedly reduce production costs by 20 percent.

Ecobreves – ECUADOR: El Niño Returns

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Ecuadorian government prepares for the return this year of the phenomenon known as El Niño, a warm marine current in the Pacific Ocean that alters the normal patterns of rainfall and winds, causing the extremes of drought or floods.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Solar Energy Shines

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Greenpeace environmental organization's Argentine office revved up its own solar energy generator in April to provide electricity for its headquarters in the capital, and plans to contribute its surplus to the public network.

Ecobreves – BRASIL: Seed Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The oil from the seeds of the 'andiroba,' a tree from the Amazon region, is bringing electricity to a small community in Brazil's Middle Juruá Extraction Reserve, an area dedicated to the sustainable production of natural rubber, nuts and fruits.

Ecobreves – PERU: Factory under Fire

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A Chilean pasta factory, built in a protected natural area in Peru, has been added to the list of cases under investigation by a parliamentary commission here that is attempting to untangle the web of corruption created by Vladimiro Montesinos, the fugitive former intelligence chief who served the deposed president Alberto Fujimori.

Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR: Quake-Resistant Adobe

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Adobe, a material made from mud mixed with straw, will serve to build earthquake-resistant homes in El Salvador, announced an environmental organization. The country has already suffered to devastating quakes this year.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA : Botanical Protection

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombia-s Autonomous University of the Occident won approval from environmental authorities to create a botanical garden in the city of Cali, where academics will protect endangered plant species and teach courses in botany.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Pines vs. Diversity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The planting of exotic trees is more harmful to the biodiversity of Argentina's Patagonia region than the presence of livestock or even the damage caused by forest fires, warns Estela Raffaele, of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.

Ecobreves – PERU: Noise Will Be Punished

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Those who make excessive noise in Peru could be slapped with fines, or obligated to perform social work or administrative tasks, once the Anti-Noise Pollution Act is approved by Congress.

Ecobreves – BRASIL: Animal Smugglers Pursued

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The campaign against the illegal trafficking of wild animals in Brazil will be a permanent mission of the federal police, the tax authorities, aviation officials and the Public Ministry, announced the Brazilian Institute of the Environment (IBAMA).

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Eradicating Coca by Hand

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A thousand families in the southern Colombian department of Putumayo committed themselves on Mar 16 to take part in a government-sponsored initiative to eliminate 1,000 hectares of illegal coca crops by hand - in exchange for reliable supplies of food.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Protest against Dam

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 60 civil society organizations, including farmers' groups, have joined forces in Argentina to fight the construction of the Corpus dam on the Paraná River, a joint Paraguay-Argentina project that was already rejected in a 1996 plebiscite.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Private Ecological Reserves

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil has 317 Natural Heritage Private Reserves, evidence of the growing participation of individuals in conserving the country's biodiversity.
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