Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Environmental Damage Up for Debate

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Lawyers, biologists, geologists, engineers and chemists will take part in the first Interdisciplinary Meetings for the Prevention of Environmental Damage, to be held in Argentina May 17-18.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Indians Want Pay for Forest Care

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Indigenous groups -- fisherfolk and rubber tappers in the Brazilian Amazon -- have relaunched the Aliança dos Povos da Floresta (Alliance of Forest Peoples - APF), founded in the 1980s, to demand recognition of their role in the preservation of the jungle and of the world's climate.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Criticisms for UN Appointment of Ex-President as Climate Envoy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Chilean environmentalists reject the United Nations appointment of former president Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006) as one of three special envoys on climate change.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Eco-Construction Hopes for Habitat Award

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A Cuban-developed method of construction with ecological materials is among the four finalist projects for the World Habitat Award, sponsored by the United Nations.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Plains Vistas in the Caracas Subway

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The subway here in the Venezuelan capital caught its passengers by surprise last week at the Plaza Venezuela station, with its walls newly covered by gigantic, full-color photographs of the country's plains, teeming with plant and animal life.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Promoting a World Social Forum in Amazonia

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Social Forum could be held in South America's Amazon region if the candidacy of the northern Brazilian city of Belém to host the massive civil society event is successful.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Food Aid for Drought Zones

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Food Program will deliver 1,400 tons of food to the people of three Honduran departments that lost their entire crops to drought blamed on the climate phenomenon known as El Niño, say officials.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Cities in Search of Lost Identity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Recuperating the landscape, smells, colors and other distinctive aspects of cities, which have become hidden in part by the consumer market, is the aim of a May 3-5 meeting in the northeastern Argentine city of Paraná.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Investigating and Punishing Harm to Coral Reefs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
International experts will test new protocols in Barbados in May to investigate damage to coral reefs, an ecosystem that is home to a quarter of all marine life, and to bring to justice those responsible for the harm.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: A Law to Save a Lake

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Congress is debating a bill to halt the deterioration suffered by the northern Lake Yojoa, an area which holds great biodiversity.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Doctors Denounce Buried Arsenic

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Buried at the Altonorte foundry, near the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta, are 150,000 tons of waste minerals, with 30 percent arsenic, charges the region's medical association.

Ecobreves – CUBA: More Forested Areas by 2015

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuba hopes to plant trees on 67,000 hectares per year until 2015, with the goal of increasing its forest cover from its current 24.5 percent to 29 percent, said experts at a Havana conference last week.

Ecobreves – SOUTH AMERICA: Water Activists Issue Invitation to Governments

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The non-governmental South American Water Association, which met here last week, has called on the region's government's to take part in a forum this September in Peru.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Manufacturers Push Junk Food Ads

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican manufacturers of "junk food" are exerting heavy pressure through the governing National Action Party so that parliament will throw out any bills intended to regulate advertising of foods with little or no nutritional value, say activists.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Hepatitis and Malaria Decimate Amazon Indians

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Hepatitis and malaria are killing the indigenous peoples of the Javari River basin, bordering Peru, and the Brazilian government faces charges of failing to provide health care for five tribes whose populations total some 3,000 people.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Manual for NGO Conduct

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A self-evaluation tool for the behavior of non-governmental organizations was presented Apr. 11 in Buenos Aires by the Help Argentina association.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Advertising a Boon for Obesity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Television advertising is one of the main factors behind the rise of obesity in Brazil, says a University of Sao Paulo doctoral thesis.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Ecologists vs. Monsanto Soy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Transgenic-Free Chile Network opposes a project of the agribusiness transnational Monsanto to plant 5,000 hectares of genetically modified soybeans beginning in October 2007, and increasing to 20,000 hectares in 2010.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Endangered Orchids in Religious Procession

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Nazarene of St. Paul procession that takes place each year on Wednesday of Catholic Holy Week in the city center of Caracas, was this year adorned with 5,000 orchids that are endangered in Venezuela.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Solar Energy Arrives in Rural Community

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 60 homes in the Guantánamo community of Los Cerezos, some 1,000 km from Havana, will be supplied with electricity from photovoltaic cells by May.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Regulations for Ethanol Production

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government and sugar industry leaders in Honduras are pushing for passage of a biofuels law in the next six months to regulate ethanol production
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