Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: Anti-Pesticide Education

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) is supporting a campaign in Nicaragua's cities and rural areas to eliminate the use of industrial pesticides in the production of maize, vegetables and other crops.

Ecobreves – PERU: Rules Against Noise

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The national standards for environmental quality that the Peruvian congress is preparing include rules against noise pollution.

Ecobreves – URUGUAY: Protest Against Private Lumber Port

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental and workers' groups in Uruguay will launch further protests against the activities of the National Cellulose Enterprise of Spain (ENCE), which on Nov. 10 inaugurated the private port of M'Bopicuá, on the Uruguay River for the processing and export of lumber.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA:: Small Enterprise Needs Green Credits

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Small and medium businesses face great difficulties in obtaining financing for "clean" production processes, although these companies provide 60 percent of the jobs in the country, according to organizers of a seminar on sustainable development for small enterprise.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: To the Rescue of the Magdalena

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Colombian environmental authorities have launched a plan for the reforestation of the Magdalena River Basin, which crosses the country, flowing south to north. The conservation plan also aims to reactivate river transportation.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Environmental Initiatives Expo

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Entrepreneurs and authorities from throughout the Americas will learn about successful ecological initiatives in Costa Rica when they visit the Environmental Solutions Fair, to take place here Dec. 3-5.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Coffee-Growers Reject U.S. Proposal

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The National Coffee Association of Guatemala (Anacafe) rejected the U.S. proposal to define rules of origin for cafe based on soluble coffee and processed beverages, instead of based on where the coffee was grown.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Aymaras Grow Food for Vicuñas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Thirty indigenous ranchers in Chile's extreme north will be the first beneficiaries of a project for growing forage plants to feed vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna), a member of the South American Andes llama family.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Coffee Grown with Its Own Waste

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Coffee growers in eastern Cuba have significantly increased production with the application of fertilizer made from the waste material produced in processing the coffee for consumption.

Ecobreves – UNITED STATES: Fires Threaten Wildlife

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts warn that it will take months or years for condor, deer, bear and other species to recover from the destruction of their habitat that occurred in the forest fires of late October in the U.S. state of California.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Bio-Pesticides on the Rise

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The use of biological pesticides in Latin America could represent nine percent of the global total by 2008, with a value of 100 million dollars, said experts taking party in a symposium hosted by the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), in Costa Rica.

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: Zoo's Residents in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 78 species of Nicaraguan fauna at the National Zoo lack the appropriate habitat for development and reproduction, the zoo's director, Marina Sacasa, told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Mayan Sites Protected

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Congress has declared the Guatemalan Mayan archeological sites of Yaxhá, Nakum and Naranjo protected areas. Located in the northern department of El Petén, bordering Mexico, they are frequent targets for looters and vandals.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Ex-Ambassador Visits Threatened Forest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Former U.S. ambassador to Honduras and director of the Center for International Policy, Robert White, has called for protection of the forests in the northeast department of Olancho and the resolution of the June murder of environmentalist Carlos Reyes.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Fighting Ozone Pollution

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Sao Paulo government's environmental clean-up agency aims to reduce the proportion of olefins (volatile hydrocarbons) in gasoline from 30 to five percent in order to fight urban ozone pollution.

Ecobreves – International Year of Rice

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In an effort to attend to the problems of hunger and malnutrition, among others, the United Nations General Assembly on Oct. 31 declared 2004 the International Year of Rice. Sixty percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor live in Asia, and rice is their principal sustenance.

Ecobreves – URUGUAY: Belated Sanitation Alert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The sanitation alarm sounded by Uruguayan authorities last week in the southern Ciudad de la Costa, the country's fastest growing urban center, came two years after residents, experts and activists warned of the problem.

Ecobreves – PERU: On War Footing for Gold Mining Project

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Canadian mining company Manhattan, backed by Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines, called off the Nov. 7 public hearing on its gold exploitation plan for the northern city of Tambogrande after the mayor announced a general strike to protest the project.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: The Disappearing Amphibians

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Populations of 23 species of frogs and toads in Costa Rica have decreased, and 11 could become extinct, according to the studies conducted by biologists Gerardo Chaves and Federico Bolaños, from Costa Rica's National University.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Monitoring Caribbean Reefs

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Guatemala's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources this month delivered aquatic research equipment for monitoring the Mesoamerican Reef System, which extends along the Caribbean coast from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, to Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Ecological Museum Promoted

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents and officials in the northern Honduran region of Choloma are promoting the creation of an ecological museum near Ticamaya Lagoon in order to protect marine species and promote tourism.
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