Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Parks on Yellow Alert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A "conservationist meter" applied to eight of Venezuela's 43 national parks by the non-governmental organization Vitalis shows "yellow alert", between red for "danger" and green for "satisfactory".

Ecobreves – CUBA: Prize-Winning Eco-Construction Technique

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A Cuban approach for constructing and repairing homes with ecological materials that are resistant to natural disasters received the World Habitat Award on Oct. 1, awarded annually by the Britain-based Building and Social Housing Foundation.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Prize for Microfiltering Membranes

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian company PAM, awarded Sep. 19 as the best firm "incubated" by the National Association of Promoting Entities of Innovative Enterprise, is the first producer of microfiltering membranes in Latin America.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Illegal Timber Reaches the Government

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Part of the tables, shelves and other wooden objects that the government of Mexico purchases -- this year for a total of some 180 million dollars -- comes from forests that were logged illegally, charge environmentalists.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: The Better to Recycle With

By IPS Correspondents and - -
With the aim of sharing experiences in urban recycling policies, Latin American officials, business leaders, academics and activists met recently in Buenos Aires.
Cuban girls cleaning up a beach. - Julio Haedo

Ecobreves – CUBA: Kids and Adults in Nature Clean-Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Hundreds of people in Cuba took part in the campaign "To Clean the World", sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program, reforesting and cleaning up coastal areas.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Mapuches Denounce Government at the UN

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean government should turn in the report about the denunciation presented by ecologists and Mapuche Indians of the central region of Araucanía "if it wants to hold a post in 2008 on the UN Human Rights Council."

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Plan to Save the Amphibians

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Scientific and environmental institutions drafted a plan to protect the 320 species of toads, frogs and salamanders (five percent of the world's total) that live in Venezuela.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Ozone Protocol Also Curbs Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol entered into force, United Nations officials are celebrating the fact that this pact has gone beyond its objective of protecting the atmospheric ozone layer to reducing emissions of gases that cause climate change.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Dolphins Mistreated and Killed in Captivity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Corruption and complicity of authorities allows some 20 dolphin aquariums to operate in Mexico, with more than half dying prematurely from pneumonia, stress and trauma from beatings.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Sugarcane Doesn't Need the Amazon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ethanol fuel boom is driving the expansion of sugarcane plantations in Roraima, Brazil's northernmost state, because of its stable climate and flat terrain -- ideal for mechanized harvest.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Warning on Salmon Farms in Earthquake Zone

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental group Oceana has urged the Chilean government to take a cautionary attitude in taking a decision to renew authorization for raising salmon in floating cages in the Aysén fjord, 1,600 km south of the capital.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Reforesting the Capital's “Lungs”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fruit and timber trees -- 300,000 of them -- have been planted over the past two years on Juan A. Laínez hill, once one of the Honduran capital's main green spaces, and environmental "lungs".

Ecobreves – CUBA: The Return of a Natural Pool

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A natural pool, Los Cangilones, along the Máximo River in the central Cuban province of Camagüey, will once again receive bathers year-round, after being rescued from contamination from the waste of a nearby fish farm.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Sea Turtles Faithful to Their Beaches

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) that was marked with a metal plate three years ago has returned to lay eggs in Macuro, on the northeastern Venezuelan peninsula of Paria.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Agro-industry's Own Environmental Research Center

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The main entities of Brazil's agricultural-industrial sector announced last week the creation of ARES, the Institute for Responsible Agribusiness.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Electrochemical Gold Purification

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican researchers began operating a prototype electrochemical reactor that separates gold and silver from other minerals, without producing toxic residues.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Lawsuit Against Eucalyptus

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Seven environmental organizations from the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul are demanding that federal justice authorities only authorize eucalyptus plantations if they comply with environmental impact studies.

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras and Guatemala to Protect Shared Ecosystems

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The governments of Honduras and Guatemala signed a cooperation agreement on Aug. 27 to protect the natural resources the two countries share along their Caribbean coastlines.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Whales in the Schools

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A plan for children to develop "a comprehensive appreciation of whales and their environment" will begin in late September in five schools of the southern Argentine province of Chubut.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Bank for Depositing Garbage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A "garbage bank" will premiere this year in Santa Teresa del Tuy, a bedroom community southeast of Caracas where some 300,000 people live, and who generate 100 tons of solid waste each day, the project's main promoter, ecologist Oswaldo Alvarado, told Tierramérica.
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