Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Coffee Pact Criticized

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Environmental Prosecutor denounced an agreement between the government's Forest Conservation Institute and a coffee-growers' association, saying it endangers the flora and fauna in Comayagua and El Paraíso departments.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Promoting Bicycle Use

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fans of cycling are applauding the launch on Feb. 15 of a program to promote bicycle use in one area of the Mexican capital, but they are asking the city government for more support for this transportation alternative.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires 'Lung' Threatened

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Without management or a budget, the most important public park in the Argentine capital is falling apart, due to the increase in its commercial use.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Naturally Protected Foods

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A natural film has many advantages over plastic sheets that it can replace in protecting food, especially fruit. The film is made of edible material, from proteins extracted from maize, wheat and other plants.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Organics at a Global Fair

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Seven companies, most of them consisting of peasant and indigenous farmers, will represent Honduras at BioFach 2010, an international fair of organic products taking place Feb. 17-20 in Nuremberg, Germany.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Solar Field in the Desert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
More than 130,000 solar panels will make up the first photovoltaic plant in the middle of Chile's Atacama Desert. Construction is to begin in the coming months.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protests Against Landfill

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mayor Rosiris Orozco and residents of La Concepción, a municipality near Maracaibo, 500 km west of Caracas, have asked Venezuela's Environment Ministry to shut down La Ciénaga sanitary landfill, which receives 100 trucks filled with garbage each day.

Ecobreves – CUBA: More Trees in Havana

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Cuban capital benefited in 2009 from the planting of more than 33,000 trees. But government officials and ecologists point to the low survival rate of the new trees.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: New Photovoltaic Technology

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers at the Pontificate Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul have developed a technique - which until now Brazil had to import - for transforming solar energy into electricity.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Biodiesel Beats Goal by Three Years

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Diesel fuel used in Brazil is a five-percent mix of biofuel as of January 1 this year, reaching the goal set by the National Biofuel Program, begun in 2005, three years ahead of time. Until now, the mix was three percent.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Biodegradable Future

By IPS Correspondents and - -
As they become more widely produced, biodegradable plastics will replace synthetic polymers, Angel Romo, researcher at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Coral in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Increasing acidity in the waters off the Caribbean coast - an effect of global warming - is hurting the coral reefs of the Islas de la Bahía, report officials from the Honduran Secretariat of Environment.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: A Natural Way for Preserving Meats

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Grape seeds and skins, already known for their antioxidant properties, can be used as a natural preservative for fresh meats in cold storage, researchers at the University of São Paulo have shown.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: No More Pitbulls

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A law enacted at the beginning of this year orders that all pitbull dogs (crosses of several types of bull terriers) must be eliminated in Venezuela by 2015. In the meantime, these dogs must be kept strictly kenneled.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Food Distributed to Drought Victims

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The most vulnerable regions of seven of the 18 departments of Honduras, hit by drought resulting from the El Niño climate phenomenon, this month are receiving the first round of food aid coordinated by national and international emergency agencies.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Swan Death Investigation Extended

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The investigation into the 2004 deaths of hundreds of black-necked swans in the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary, 800 km south of the Chilean capital, will wrap up in June.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Complaints Against Dakar Rally

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An environmental group from the central Argentine province of Córdoba has charged that no environmental impact studies were conducted for the 2010 Dakar Rally under way in Argentina and neighboring Chile.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Making Use of E-Waste

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The University of São Paulo has begun to recycle electronic waste, creating a center, known as CEDIR, which has started in-house with the university's own obsolete devices of information technology.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Poultry Farmers Promote Certification

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Poultry farmers in the Mexico City area want to organize under a system that allows them to certify their production, following models that exist for sectors like corn and sugarcane farmers.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Punishment Lifted for Illegal Loggers

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian government has put a three-year suspension on punishments for illegal logging issued up to Dec. 10, leading environmental activists to charge that the government is reversing the stance it took at the United Nations climate change conference held earlier this month in Copenhagen.

Ecobreves – CUBA: New Planetarium in Old Havana

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A planetarium that will contribute to research and promotion of astronomy in Cuba was inaugurated this month in Old Havana.
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