Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: On Alert at El Ávila National Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuelan environmentalists sounded the alarm when President Hugo Chávez announced the partial "deallocation" of El Ávila national Park, which extends over 85,100 hectares in the mountains between Caracas and the Caribbean, in order to build housing on the mountainsides facing the sea.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Growing Opposition to Mining in the North

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"Every day there are more organizations" that oppose the expansion of major mining in the northern Andean region of Chile, due to its harm to glaciers and water sources, activist Mauricio Ríos, of the Northern Environmental Network (RAN), told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Forests Improve Coffee Crops

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cultivating coffee near intact forests increases yields by up to 20 percent, according to a study by the Brazilian agricultural research agency EMBRAPA, whose aim was to evaluate the capital accumulated in services provided by native vegetation.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Biological Center to Reduce Agro-Toxins

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Agricultural Research Foundation will establish a center for the production of biological agents to protect crops, as a way to replace the use of agro-chemicals.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Natural Area Once Again Protected

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Senate in the northern Argentine province of Salta has approved a law to create a national reserve in a provincial protected area -- whose protection was removed in 2004.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Food Industry Can Utilize Its Own Waste

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Waste from the food industry could be utilized in its same productive process -- this is the surprising conclusion of a study by Brazil's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Last of the Huemul Deer in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The construction of the Punilla hydroelectric dam in the Chilean region of Biobío poses a threat to some 40 huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus), a type of deer living in that area of central Chile, warn local and foreign environmental groups.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Chevron Finances Indigenous Artisanry

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Tierra Viva Foundation launched an artisan training program, financed by the oil giant Chevron, for indigenous Warao communities living in the Orinoco River delta, in the far east of Venezuela.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: A Push for Sustainable Rural Enterprise

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Four provinces in Honduras will begin sustainable development efforts in 2011 for small rural agricultural businesses, financed by 32 million dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Company Fined for Environmental Damages

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The thermal energy company San Lorenzo Light and Power (Lufussa), which operates in the southern Honduran city of the same name, will have to pay 32,000 dollars in fines for the damages resulting from a fuel spill in July 2009.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Another Setback for Law on E-Waste

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The vote on a legislative bill about electronic-waste management, already with three years in the Senate, faced new objections and may not be passed until 2011.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Soy Biodiesel Produces Genetic Mutations

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Contact with biodiesel, seen as an alternative fuel that is less harmful than fossil fuels, could be causing genetic mutations, concludes a doctoral thesis study by Daniela Morais Leme, at Brazil's State University of São Paulo.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Forest Communities Demand Effective Management

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The indigenous communities that inhabit Mexico's forests should participate in all forest-use policies, according to a civil society campaign launched on Nov. 23.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Eco-Friendly Formaldehyde Disposal

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A technique for breaking down formaldehyde before disposal has been developed by Brazilian scientist Sônia Borges de Oliveira, professor at the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Financing for a Million-Dollar Wind Project

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Central American Economic Integration Bank (BCIE) will provide 209.3 million dollars in financing for a company with U.S. capital to generate wind energy in Cerro de Hula, south of the Honduran capital.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protests Against Sale of Pink River Dolphins

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Thousands of residents in the Venezuelan city of Valencia signed petitions to convince the government to halt the shipment of two pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) to Daejeon Aquaworld, in South Korea.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Making Use of Construction Waste

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mineral and industrial waste from construction is becoming raw material for new building through a technique developed by engineer Janaína Accordi Junkes, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Requesting More Funds Against Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Actions for adapting to and mitigating climate change need at least one percent of Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP), proposed a collective of environmental groups.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: A New Way to Collect Trash

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipal government of the southern Honduran city of Choluteca decided to collect garbage using horse-drawn carts in the neighborhoods not served by the sanitation service.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Hunger Strike Against Fumigation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
On the eve of a predicted record soybean harvest, an Argentine forestry engineer, backed by environmental groups, began a hunger strike against crop fumigation with dangerous agro-chemicals.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Unbeatable in Can Recycling

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil recycled 98.2 percent of the aluminum cans used last year, according to a study by the Brazilian Aluminum Association (ABAL).
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