Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Extension for Overflowing Garbage Dump

By IPS Correspondents and - -
For the fifth time in five years, the Mexico City government has won a postponement for closing down the Bordo Poniente, the capital's largest garbage dump, which is full beyond capacity.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Complaints Against Draining of Paraná Delta

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of the town of Baradero, in the north of Buenos Aires province, have sounded the alarm about the construction of embankments intended to drain part of the Paraná River delta.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Climate Debate Cool in Poland

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The United Nations conference on climate change, Dec. 1-12 in Poznan, Poland, faces the task of agreeing a plan of action for negotiations in 2009 for an obligatory pact for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Mangroves Cut Down to Protect Lagoon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuela's Environment Ministry began cutting down hundreds of meters of mangroves in Las Peonías lagoon, the core of a 2,100-hectare park near Maracaibo (600 km west of Caracas), despite regulations that protect mangrove ecosystems.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Anti-Pesticide Groups Take On the Government

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Alliance for a Better Quality of Life and the Latin American Anti-Pesticide Action Network (RAP-AL) of Chile staged a protest outside the government's Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) headquarters about the continuation of aerial fumigation.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Affordable Eco-Housing

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A low-cost home that can be built in five days from recycled material only and equipped to use solar energy and rainwater is a social and environmental solution that is gaining ground in Brazil.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Energy Collaboration in the Caribbean

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Eleven countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are benefitting from a program promoted by Cuba for saving energy, the island nation's deputy foreign minister, Alejandro González, said ahead of the regional summit Monday.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Christmas Trees and Plagues from the North

By IPS Correspondents and - -
With Christmas trees imported from Canada and Mexico, pests are arriving in Mexico, but the authorities are doing little or nothing about it, complain Mexican forestry producers.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Jaguars Victims of Ranchers

By IPS Correspondents and - -
One of the main causes of the decline of the jaguar population in Argentina is hunting -- reprisal for the big cats' attacks on livestock --, according to the report "Identification of Jaguar-Human Conflicts in Northern Salta, Argentina," published this month by the Red Yaguareté (Jaguar Network).

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Mining Companies Putting On the Pressure — Again

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The mining industry in Honduras has once again demanded that the government approve a legal framework for the sector, citing financial losses and reduction of jobs resulting from a lack of investment.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Irrigation Project Wins International Prize

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Pintadas Solar project, which foments farming on small family-owned plots, has won the Seed Award, granted by the United Nations and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Ecobreves – CUBA: Poor Waste Management Worsens Hurricane Impacts

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An evaluation of the impact of hurricanes in Cuba has revealed that disaster risk increases because of factors like construction along the coastline, poor waste management and cutting down mangrove forests.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Demands to Legalize Mapuche Health System

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Network of Mapuche Health Organizations, made up of nine entities from Chile's most numerous indigenous group, is drafting a proposal so that their health system will be recognized by Chilean law.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Hunting Pushes Bird to Extinction

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The scarlet finch, also known as the red siskin (Carduelis cucullata), a small bird native to northern Venezuela, is on the verge of disappearing and is rarely seen in the wild because poachers capture these birds to cross them with canaries in order to produce red offspring.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Award Goes to Bio-Method for Environmental Clean-up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Santander Science and Innovation Prize was awarded this month in Brazil to a biological method for cleaning up areas contaminated by metals, developed by the University of São Paulo.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Hearings on Forestry Law

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The governmental Forest Conservation Institute (ICF) of Honduras announced the beginning of hearings about integrating communities in the protection and conservation of forests.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Researching a Male Contraceptive

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican researchers are developing a pharmaceutical that could be used as a male contraceptive, and which also promises to be an effective method to control populations of rats, dogs and cats.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Decree Authorizes Destruction of Caves

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A presidential decree in Brazil published Nov. 10 authorizes the destruction of caves. This country has 4,629 identified caves -- a total which grows 300 each year. Only the caves considered important will be protected.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Observatory of Cosmic Rays

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ten years after laying its cornerstone, the Pierre Auger Observatory, in Argentina, the only one in the southern hemisphere for studying cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere, will open its doors this month.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: How to Mitigate Climate Threats

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 30 indigenous Lenca communities from the western Honduran departments of Lempira and Copán will develop projects aimed at preventing their vulnerability to the effects of climate change.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Critics Point to Lack of Anti-Desertification Measures

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"Desertification is one of Chile's most serious environmental problems, but there is no government policy" to fight it, Lucio Cuenca, of the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), told Tierramérica.
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