Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: : Alarm Sounds for Forest Fires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Guatemalan officials have issued a yellow alert due to the intensity of the 67 forest fires recorded during 50 days so far this year and which have destroyed 500 hectares of forest.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Environmental Training for Young People

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Dozens of youths from the Mexican capital will soon receive training to bring about environmental changes in their communities, all part of the Geo Youth project of the United Nations Environment Program.

Ecobreves – SOUTH AMERICA: Promoting Sustainable Fishing

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Artisanal fisherfolk from seven South American countries met in Argentina Mar. 1-4 to discuss small-scale sustainable fishing and to exchange information on fishing stock management.

Ecobreves – PERU: Seeking Small Investment in Reforestation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The new National Plan for Reforestation, to be debated in coming weeks by the Peruvian Congress, modifies the existing policy for promoting forestry, which favors major investors, and instead would also promote participation by small and medium investors.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Tree Nursery for a National Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Groundbreaking for nursery that is to hold 5,000 species of trees and other plants, some in danger of extinction, took place in El Avila National Park, which encompasses the mountain that separates the Venezuelan capital from the Caribbean coast.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Controversy Rekindled on Cellulose Plant

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A technical report leaked to the press has rekindled the debate between activists and the environmental authorities that authorized the reopening of a cellulose factory that has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of black-necked swans.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Tourism and Pollution Threaten Reefs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Tourism and pollution in the beautiful Bahía Islands threaten the coral reefs of the Honduran Caribbean, environmental attorney general Aldo Santos told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Drought Extends Across the Island

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The drought that has been thrashing Cuba's eastern provinces for almost two years is now hitting the central and western regions of this Caribbean country, report the authorities.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Amatitlán Lake Slated for Clean Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan government will invest 29 million dollars to clean up Amatitlán Lake, 25 km south of the capital. The lake is full of algae and waste, which threatens to turn it into a swamp in just 10 years.
The wax palm - Juan Manuel Rengifo

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Holy Week, but No Palm Fronds

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombia's Environment Ministry and Bogotá's Botanical Garden have launched the ''Reconcile with Nature'' campaign to prevent the use of the fronds of the wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in the celebrations of Christianity's Holy Week.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: 'Export' of Law on Transgenics?

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental watchdog group Greenpeace warned that the new Mexican law on biosecurity for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) --opposed by environmentalists, a group of farmers, and scientists -- could be used as a model for similar legislation in Central America.

Ecobreves – PERU: Oil Companies Resist Ethanol

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Sugarcane growers in Peru are demanding that the government comply with the law on Promotion of Bio-Fuel Market, in effect since Jan. 1, and which obligates petroleum refineries to replace the lead in gasoline with ethanol.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS:: $320 Million to Fight Water Shortage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Honduran authorities need 320 million dollars to build a reservoir for potable water in the capital, where tight rationing of water supplies has been in effect because of a dry summer and the climate phenomenon known as El Niño.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: To Jail for Littering

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipal government of Quiché, a tourist destination in central Guatemala, will send anyone who dumps trash in the streets to prison for 10 to 60 days.

Ecobreves – AMAZON: Fight Against Mercury

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mercury in the rivers of the Amazon region is threatening the environment and human health, says the Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization (OTCA), which is discussing action plans for curbing contamination from this heavy metal in the eight countries with Amazonian territory.

Ecobreves – CHILE:: Cellulose Plant Remains Closed

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean regional environmental commission, COREMA, resolved to maintain the closure of the Arauco Constitución cellulose plant in Valdivia, in southern Chile, until it complies with four requisites for preventing contamination of the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Kids Care for Havana Bay

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A university environmental project implemented in several Havana schools aims to raise environmental awareness amongst children and adolescents for protecting the capital's bay, an ecosystem contaminated by the city's domestic and industrial waste.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Rescuing Nurse Sharks

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ten small nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) whose mother was sold by fisherman were rescued off Venezuela's Margarita Island by scientists from the Shark Research Center.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: New Traffic Route for Capital

By IPS Correspondents and - -
National and city authorities are planning to build a second ''ring'' highway around the capital in a bid to ease traffic congestion.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Promoting Vegetable Oil for Cars

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A group of U.S. experts with the environmental group Sustainable Solutions Caravan proposed to government officials and civil society groups in Honduras the use of ''bio-fuel'' for cars as a means to reduce pollution.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Entrepreneurs Dissuaded from Buying Preserve

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Protests by residents and by environmental groups against the sale and logging of 25,000 hectares in Argentina's General Pizarro nature preserve, in the northern province of Salta, led businessman Manuel Santos Uribellarrea to withdraw from the project, Greenpeace representatives told Tierramérica.
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