Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Reforestation Means Jobs for Peasants

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Regional Corporation of Quindío in Colombia carried out activities aimed at re-establishing ecosystems and forests, generating employment for at least 90 families, as part of the 2004-2006 Action Plan.

Ecobreves – PERU: Demands for Guarantees from Mining Companies

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The concession-holders of mining contracts in Peru will have to put forth financial guarantees -- titles, shares or cash -- to pay for potential environmental damage from their operations if a bill presented by Congressman Jaime Velásquez is passed.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA-MEXICO: Protecting the Usumacinta Watershed

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental groups from Guatemala and Mexico will strengthen a strategic alliance in 2005 to protect the two countries' shared watershed of the Usumacinta River.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Environmentalists Worry Over Land Intervention

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuelan environmentalists expressed their concern about a decree in the central state of Cojedes that ordered ''intervention'' of all fallow lands that could be used in agriculture, including extensive cattle ranching accompanied by private forest and water reserves, that are now home to hundreds of species.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Shrimper's Environmental Permit Cancelled

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Environmental Prosecutor revoked the environmental permit of El Faro, a shrimping operation that fishes in the Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific Ocean. The firm is accused of causing severe damage to wetlands and mangroves in the area, which is shared by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: First Hydrogen Bus

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil will have its first electrical engine, hydrogen-fuelled bus in 2006, according to the graduate engineering program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Experts to Investigate Swan Die-Off

By IPS Correspondents and - -
International experts will visit Chile in February or March to investigate the recent massive deaths of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) in the Río Cruces nature sanctuary, 790 km south of the capital. Environmentalists claim it was caused by waste from a cellulose factory

Ecobreves – CUBA: Coastline Plagued by Erosion

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Around 90 percent of Cuba's coastline suffers some degree of erosion as a result of rising sea level, pollution and extraction of sand, warns an official report.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Tikal in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal, one of the main tourist attractions in Guatemala, require urgent conservation efforts, say experts.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: World Bank Protects Hummingbird

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Ecologists Network announced that it would invest 200,000 dollars to protect the Honduran emerald hummingbird (Amazilia luciae), an endemic species that faces extinction.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Alert Against Transgenic Trees

By IPS Correspondents and - -
International environmental organizations gathered in Argentina are exhorting governments around the world to ban the inclusion of transgenic tree plantations as possible ''carbon sinks'' to capture greenhouse gases.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Sustainable Crafts

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Communities neighboring the 49 nature preserves in Colombia this month presented a show of artisan work that uses natural resources, but are developed through environmental sustainable processes.

Ecobreves – PERU: Eco-Radio Rewarded

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ozono Radio, an environmental broadcaster that targets youth audiences, won first prize in the communications category of the Business Creativity 2004 contest, promoted by the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA:: More Royalties from Mining

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan Congress aims to increase from one to 10 percent the royalties that more than 400 mines of precious minerals must pay the government.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Activists Demand Cleaner Air

By IPS Correspondents and - -
On the eve of the 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Climate Change, Dec. 6-17 in the Argentine capital, hundreds of the country's environmental groups demanded that the government take concrete steps towards curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Devastating Rains

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Heavy rains falling in Colombia since September have claimed the lives of some 30 people and left more than 250,000 homeless, according to reports presented by local emergency committees.

Ecobreves – PERU: Decentralizing Environmental Programs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Metropolitan Municipal Council of Lima will ask Congress to decentralize environmental protection programs that are currently handled by the Ministry of Production.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Behind Soybeans Comes Transgenic Cotton

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil is experiencing new transgenic confusion. Environmentalists and the Environment Ministry challenge the National Biosecurity Technical Commission's decision to authorize sales of cottonseed that contains no more than one percent genetically modified seeds.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Hotel Applauded for Protecting Ozone Layer

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment created a prize for institutions that work to protect the Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, and the first went to the Hotel Meliá Cayo Santa María, in the central province of Villa Clara.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Proposal for Crocodile Trade

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Commercial exploitation of the Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius), an endangered species native to Venezuela and Colombia, could help prevent its extinction, says the Venezuelan Foundation of Sciences Development (FUDECI).

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: Environment Finds Way into Church Liturgy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Latin American Council of Churches, CLAI, an umbrella of religious organizations representing 10 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, has incorporated environmental issues into its liturgies.
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