Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Green Schools Look to the Future

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government, backed by the business community, has introduced the “Green Schools” project to recover and preserve the main watersheds near Tegucigalpa.

Ecobreves – CHILE:: State-Run Mining Company Faces Investigation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Chile’s Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously to investigate the state-owned National Copper Corporation (Codelco), to determine its responsibilities in polluting the capital’s Carén estuary.
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Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Deforestation Spreading

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- In Guatemala, an average of 73,148 hectares of forest disappears each year. The figures come from a Forest Cover Dynamics map created by the state-run National Forestry Institute (INB) and National Protected Areas Council and the private University del Valle.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Fire Devastate Nature Reserve

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombia's environmental authorities have declared an ecological disaster as a result of the fires in the central-western nature park of Los Nevados that destroyed some 5,000 of the park's 58,000 hectares.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: First Map of Land Use

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Technicians at Guatemala's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, along with the National Geographic Institute and other national entities, have drawn up the first Map of Vegetation Coverage and Land Use, for better planning of productive projects and to monitor deforestation.
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Ecobreves – MEXICO: Collecting Funds to Protect Jaguar

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Mexican environmental group Naturalia launched a national fundraising effort last weekend to expand the 4,000-hectare protected area of the jaguar (Panthera onca) set aside in the northern state of Sonora in 2003.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Another Highway Threatens the Amazon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil's Ministry of Environment proposes creating 10 conservation areas along the route of highway BR-319, which will connect the Amazon cities of Porto Velho and Manaos.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: A Warning on Dune Disappearance

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Sixty percent of the sand dunes have been lost in the last 35 years because of increased human activity in the eastern Argentine city of Puerto Madryn, on the Atlantic coast, says the Patagonia Natural Foundation.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Selective Garbage Collection Expands

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- The number of Brazilian communities with systems of selective garbage collection has increased 38 percent, according to a new study by CEMPRE, a business organization that promotes recycling.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Environmentalists Threatened

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Vilmar Berna, an environmental journalist who won the United Nations Global 500 prize in 1999, lives under a death threat issued more than a month ago in Niteroi, a city neighboring Rio de Janeiro. He filed a complaint and requested police protection last week but the response has been slow in coming.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Seeking Adoptive Parents for Turtles

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A program to protect sea turtles of the southern Caribbean and the beaches of Venezuela began a new phase with the search for "adoptive parents" -- symbollically -- for each of the animals sighted by the Center for Researcha nd Conservation of Sea Turtles (CICTMAR).

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Forestry Certification on the Rise

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ten Honduran businesses are pioneers in forestry certification, a practice that is expected to gather strength by the end of the year, according to a program that has the government's backing.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Paper Mill Fined

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The company Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (CELCO), located in the 10th Chilean region of Los Lagos, will have to pay a fine of about 60,000 dollars for the foul odors emanating from its mill in 2004, ruled the Appeals Court, upholding a sentence of the health authorities in the city of Valdivia.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Persistent Organic Pollutants Eliminated

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of a small community outside the city of Guantánamo, 929 km east of Havana, have turned a dump into an environmental center that has reduced emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the atmosphere.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Deadly Attacks Against Ecologists

By IPS Correspondents and - -
At least 115 environmental activists, technicians and workers have been the subject of violence, kidnapping and even murder in the last 16 years in Guatemala, says a report by the Center for Environmental and Social Legal Action (CALAS).
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Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Jeers for World Bank Transgenics Plan

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Latin American environmentalists and social activists closed ranks against the World Bank, which proposes developing biosafety research in the region, through the cultivation of genetically modified maize, potato, yucca and cotton.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: New Way to Recycle Fluorescent Lights

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo's Incubator of Technological Enterprise are developing a technology that promises to recover nearly 98 percent of the contaminating materials from used fluorescent lightbulbs.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Reservoirs Regain Water Levels, Rationing Ended

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Last weekend the drastic rationing of potable water came to an end in the Honduran capital, after the main reservoirs supplying the city finally regained levels within the normal range.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Orthodox Church Embraces Defense of the Amazon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Aboard a boat, some 150 clerics, scientists, government officials, indigenous leaders and journalists will travel July 13-20 the rivers of the Brazilian Amazon while they discuss environmental questions related to the region, and issues related to water and ethics.
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Ecobreves – CUBA: Beneficial Uses of Tobacco

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuban scientists announced they are studying the extraction of solanesol from tobacco plants, in a search for additional benefits to the island's famous industry of hand-rolled cigars. The extract is the precursor of an antioxidant with anti-carcinogen properties.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Catholic Cardinal Urges Against Giving In to Gold

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Catholic Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez has exhorted the executive and legislative branches of the Honduran government not to give in to pressure from the transnational mining corporations that want to expand open pit mining in this Central American country.
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