Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – CUBA: Drought Alert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
More than 300,000 people suffer water shortages daily in Holguín, one of the six provinces in eastern Cuba hard hit by drought since the 1990s.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL:: Engineers Seek Better Waves for Surfing

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Increasing the height of ocean waves by 80 percent and improving their dynamic to benefit surfers is the goal of a project of the post-graduate engineering program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Ecobreves – CHILE: Advances in Cleaning Up Santiago

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean government is creating a Transantiago Financial Administration System to reorganize public transportation and to build bikeways, among other measures intended to reduce pollution in the capital, home to five million people.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fighting Desertification and Drought

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An initiative to mitigate the effects of drought and to prevent desertification in 10 of the 18 departments of Honduras began two weeks ago with public hearings and the identification of productive projects.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Protest Against Puebla-Panama Plan

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Guatemalan Indians and peasant farmers planned to stage a protest against the Puebla-Panama Plan on Mar. 23, during a visit by Mexican President Vicente Fox, the promoter of the initiative.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Invaders Eradicated from Coco Island

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Scientists from the World Conservation Union aim to remove invading species from Costa Rica's Coco Island, in the Pacific Ocean, so that they do not cause further harm to biodiversity.

Ecobreves – URUGUAY: Referendum on Right to Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Uruguayan civil society groups will celebrate Mar. 22, World Water Day, with workshops, exhibits and cultural activities to raise awareness about the importance of this resource and to promote a constitutional reform that would prohibit the privatization of water and sanitation services.

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Tribunal in Defense of Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Central American Water Tribunal is conducting its second session of hearings Mar. 15-19 in the Costa Rican capital to debate nine cases involving the countries of the region.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Fish as Alternative to Coffee

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is promoting tilapia fish farming as a productive alternative for communities that have been hit hard by the coffee crisis, especially along the southern coast.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Out of Firefighting Funds

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The national government has left the forestry development agency COHDEFOR without funds for preventing and fighting forest fires, denounced the entity's director, Gustavo Morales.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Project to Protect Reservoir

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Authorities in northern Colombia inaugurated the Guájaro Reservoir Community Project on Mar. 13 in this region on the Caribbean coast.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Greenpeace Promotes Wind Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Argentine affiliate of Greenpeace, the international environmental watchdog, is launching a campaign this month to promote the use of wind energy, with sights on the upcoming meeting of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition, set for June in Bonn.

Ecobreves – PERU: No Money for Clean-Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The U.S. company Doe Run Resources has asked the Peruvian government to allow it to postpone clean-up of the dangerous contamination caused by its mining activities in Junin and Oroya, in the central sierra, since 1997.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Agrarian Debate Begins

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan government and leaders of the peasant group Plataforma Agraria (PA) will take part in dialogue to seek solutions to rural land conflicts and discuss policies for developing the countryside.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Binational Project to Protect Birds

By IPS Correspondents and - -
U.S. and Honduran scientists will work together over the next three years to study and protect migratory birds, including the tiny golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia), whose habitat is 1,800 meters above sea level in encino pine trees.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Mangroves on the Verge

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Costa Rican scientists and environmentalists say the country's mangroves, on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, are on the verge of collapse despite the numerous regulations in place to protect them.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: People's Trial on Transgenics

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An International People's Tribunal on Transgenics held sessions in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Mar. 11, finding genetically modified soy "guilty".

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Canada Gives a Hand to Caracas Sanitation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Canada will contribute a half-million dollars to build wastewater systems in poor districts of the Venezuelan capital, says the Canadian ambassador Allan Culham.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Proposal for Mining to Pay for Forests

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The executive director of the Chilean Forestry Research Institute, Roberto Ipinza, proposed that a portion of the income tax revenues from mining operations should be earmarked for forest development.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Limits for Corvina Catches

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Argentina and Uruguay have banned the use of trawl nets to fish for 'corvina rubia' in the Rio de la Plata estuary that the two countries share. The ban lasts from October to March and is intended to protect this species that has begun to suffer the consequences of overexploitation.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Glyphosate in Nature Reserves

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombia's Environment Minister Sandra Suárez will have to explain to her country's Congress the U.S. financing received for spraying glyphosate herbicide on illegal coca plantations in nature reserves.
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