Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – Brazil: Digitally Mapping the Amazon Region

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A total of 1,815 digital maps will be completed this year to provide a greater knowledge of Brazil’s Amazon region, contributing data on official and clandestine roads, rivers, settlements, haciendas and schools.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Communities Promote Eco-Tourism Project

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Three municipalities in Honduras’ central Comayagua valley are building their first eco-tourism center, with the aim of generating income for the region and developing conservation and management programs for the wildlife reservation of the PANACOMA national park.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Neighbors Fed Up with Garbage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Tired of putting up with a nearby dumpster, the communities of Bouwer and Potrero del Estado, in the central Argentine province of Cordoba, filed a complaint against the provincial capital for diverting its garbage to that site.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Pet Slaughter

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Dozens of cats and dogs that had been rescued from the street and were living in a 60-meter-square apartment in the state of Mexico were brutally killed by a group of hooded men armed with sticks and machetes.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Zoo Saves Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The São Paulo Zoo is saving 1.3 million liters of water per month since it started following the Rational Water Use Program (PURA, for its Portuguese acronym).

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Military Engages in Operation Forest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government announced that at month's end it will deploy a military contingent to protect 23,000 hectares of forest in the protected areas that are most in danger of fire in the dry season.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Schoolchildren Protect Fish

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Gustavo, age 10, is happy to join his classmates in moving a hundred young cachama fish (Colossoma macropomum) to a pond in the Francisco de Mirando Park in the Venezuelan capital.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Mapuches Question Validity of Gov't “Consultation”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Leaders of the Mapuche people are challenging the legitimacy and usefulness of the First National Consultation of Indigenous Peoples that the national government has extended to Mar. 2.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Danger: Fire

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The three hurricanes that thrashed Cuba in 2008 have increased the threat of forest fires during the current dry season, which lasts until early May, experts told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Anti-Soybean Video for Kids

By IPS Correspondents and - -
With a 13-minute video starring puppets and aimed at children, the environmental group Bios Argentina sets out its views on the monoculture of soybeans and the crop's environmental impact.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Acceleration in Refrigerator Replacement

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian government decided to speed up the subsidized replacement of 10 million old refrigerators over the next 10 years.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Drafting Eco-Laws for Automobiles

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Mexican government is drawing up new standards that will require automobile manufacturers to offer vehicles with low carbon dioxide emissions.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: World Bank Finances Protected Areas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Bank granted Honduras a three-million-dollar loan to protect its main areas of ecological and forestry preserves.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Partial Ban on Asbestos

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil's environment minister, Carlos Minc, has banned the use of asbestos in public works and in all vehicles associated with his portfolio, due to the health dangers the fire-resistant mineral poses.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Wetlands Not So Protected

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuela has reached the 38th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands with mixed results.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Applause for Ozone Therapy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A million patients with chronic illnesses were treated with ozone therapy in Cuba over the past two decades. Eighty percent of the cases responded with satisfactory results.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Biosphere Destruction Denounced

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Humanitarian and environmental groups have reported the continued logging in the Honduran biosphere reserve of the Plátano River, where clandestine sawmills operate.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Conflict Over Petroleum Storage Site

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents, fishers and salmon workers, including the indigenous population of Calbuco, in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos, have announced a mobilization against a fuel storage plant of the Chilean oil company Copec.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Nanotechnology to Unblock Oil Pipelines

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican scientists are turning to nanotechnology for an economical and effective solution for unblocking oil pipelines -- a problem that otherwise costs companies great sums of money worldwide.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Government Aims to End Sugarcane Burnoffs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil's Environment Ministry this month will launch the Agro-Ecological Zoning of Sugarcane and a new law to reduce the burnoffs applied before plantings, with the goal of ending them in 2020.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Phone the President, Demand Forest Law

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Argentine chapter of Greenpeace is urging the public to telephone President Cristina Fernández to ask for her speedy enactment of the native forests law that was passed 14 months ago.
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