Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Paying to Care for Forests and Monarchs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican peasant farmers who live in the areas where the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) spends its winters will receive funds to take care of their forests.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Seeds of Literacy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A program for literacy and to promote new productive activities like reforestation are under way in communities of the northern Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz, with financial backing from the European Union.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: EU Backs Environmental Campaign

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An environmental defense campaign will get under way in 25 Honduran municipalities in two months, with nine million dollars in financing from the European Union, Environment Minister Patricia Panting told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Savannah to Disappear by 2030

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ''cerrado'', a type of savannah that covers a vast part of central and western Brazil, will disappear by 2030 if current rates of deforestation continue, says the environmental watchdog Conservation International.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Families Resettle in 'Eco-Neighborhood'

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ''eco-neighborhood'' is the destination of 1,700 poor families who in 1999 took over a 22-hectare area in the Chilean capital's Peñalolén district, in the foothills of the Andes.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Desalinization on Margarita Island

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The fishing community of San Francisco, in the most remote and arid region of Venezuela's Margarita Island, will launch in August a desalinization plant intended to alleviate the thirst of the town's 3,500 inhabitants

Ecobreves – CUBA: Drought Halts Reforestation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The long drought that has hit Cuba is blocking reforestation efforts, which in the past decade were able to increase the island's forest index to more than 23 percent. In 1959, that index had fallen to 13.7 percent.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Regulating Transgenics

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP) is promoting a bill in the Guatemalan Congress to regulate the influx into the country and the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Ecobreves – PERU: Ultimatum for Polluters

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental health division of Peru's Health Ministry gave 165 mining and industrial companies 30 days to install treatment plants for the residual liquid that they have been dumping into the Rimac River, the source of 72 percent of the water consumed by the seven million residents of the capital.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Climate Change Threatens the Capital

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A study conducted by Argentine experts states that the water level of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), which flows along the edge of the capital, could rise 60 to 100 cm this century as a consequence of global warming.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Children Lift Up Voices for Environment

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fifteen delegates from different regions of Colombia headed on Jul. 16 for the 5th International Children's Conference of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), to take place Jul. 19-27 in the northeastern U.S. city of New London.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Forests Celebrated, But Cutting Continues

By IPS Correspondents and - -
As the annual Fiesta del Bosque (Festival of the Forest) takes place in Mexico, as it has every July since 1951, environmental groups are demanding a reforestation policy that would reverse the loss of hundreds of thousands of tree-covered hectares.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: GUATEMALAWater Without Chlorine

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Water for human consumption is not chlorinated in 45 percent of the 331 municipal districts of Guatemala, according to a study by the National Association of Municipalities (ANAM).

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Green Municipality

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of the western Honduran municipality of Tomalá opted one year ago not to burn any more forest to create farmland, and to protect the area's micro-watersheds.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon in the Eco-Spotlight

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The world's knowledge of the Amazon and its role in the global climate will expand Jul. 27-29 as a result of the 3rd conference of the Large-scale Biosphere Atmosphere (LBA) Experiment in the Amazon, the biggest international cooperation program for environmental studies.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Saving the Beach Where Columbus Stepped

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuban scientists were able to halt coastal erosion in parts of Bariay Key, in the eastern province of Holguín, whose sands were the first that Christopher Columbus stepped on when he reached the island more than 500 years ago.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Fisherfolk Take Water in Own Hands

By IPS Correspondents and - -
On the arid Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná, 288 residents of La Sabaneta fishing community decided to take the matter of potable water into their own hands, organizing a cooperative that will install several kilometers of water pipeline.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: 'March for Life' a Success

By IPS Correspondents and - -
More than 30,000 people took part in the ''March for Life'' across Honduras, arriving in the capital from all parts of the country on Jun. 30 to demand measures to protect the environment, defying a ban by the government.
- Claudio Contreras

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Gas from Garbage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An environmental group in Argentina has designed a tank known as a ''biodigestor'', which produces gas for fuel from organic waste, to benefit remote communities of farmers and fisherfolk.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Preventing Fires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Colombian government is drafting a plan to curb environmental losses from forest fires, using equipment worth 86,500 dollars donated by the United States to the Ministry of Housing, Environment and Territorial Development.

Ecobreves – PERU:: Regulating Hospital Waste Management

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru will begin special processing of dangerous waste coming from hospitals, the treatment of which had not been included in the national Solid Waste Act of 2000.
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