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Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Call to End Fumigation in Protected Areas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Senators and environmentalists have asked the Colombian government to annul a resolution, currently suspended, that would allow anti-drug fumigation in natural areas protected due to their biodiversity.

Ecobreves – CHILE: The Last Robinson Crusoe Castor-Oil Seed

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Three scientists are working against the clock in Chile to reproduce the Robinsonia berteroi seed, a type of castor-oil bean endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island. And there is just one specimen of this castor-oil plant left.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: T for Transgenic

By IPS Correspondents and - -
As of Mar. 31, Brazil is requiring labels to identify those foods that contain more than one percent genetically modified ingredients. Failure to comply is to be penalized with fines and seizure of the product.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Maya Assembly Under Way

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The first National Assembly of Representatives of the Maya People began on Mar. 29 in Guatemala and aims to establish ties between the Indians, the state and the international community.

Natural Gas Crisis Shifts Focus of Chile's Energy Debate

By Gustavo González and - -
Faced with cuts in natural gas supplies from Argentina, environmentalists in Chile call for diversification of energy sources, while officials consider moving up the operational start date for a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Bío-bío River.

Feared Expansion of Hydroelectric Dam

By IPS Correspondents and - -
NGOs maintain that increasing the levels of the reservoir of the Yacyretá dam on the Paraguay-Argentina border will have serious environmental consequences. The authorities assure that they will relocate the residents and various species of plants and animals from the affected area.
Methyl bromide is widely used on tobacco fields - Mauricio Ramos

A Step Backwards for the Ozone Layer

By Stephen Leahy and - -
Washington won an exemption allowing its farmers to use more methyl bromide, a pesticide banned by an international treaty because it depletes the atmospheric ozone layer. But the exemption lasts only one year.
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Peruvian Indians Save the Once-Endangered Vicuña

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the 1960s, there were just 25,000 of these camelids left. Now the vicuña population in Peru is growing eight percent a year and the species is no longer in danger of extinction, thanks to their protection in the hands of local indigenous communities.

Law on Assisted Reproduction Divides Italy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A new Italian law, which bans experiments involving human embryos, is a violation of the rights of infertile couples and of scientific freedom, say critics. The fate of the 24,000 frozen embryos that exist in Italy is uncertain.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Latin American Environmental Observatory

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Argentina's National Ecological Action Network (RENACE), an umbrella for more than 70 non-governmental organizations, in May will launch the Latin American Environmental Observatory to unite groups that are dealing with similar challenges.

Ecobreves – NORTH AMERICA: Protection for Three Marine Species

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Canada, Mexico and the United States will seek a common strategy to protect the humpbacked whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), the pink-footed shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) and the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) as part of an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of migratory species.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: National Parks in Crisis

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Costa Rica's national parks are in an distressing state of abandon due to lack of money to hire the 300 park rangers necessary to protect areas' biodiversity from hunters, charged Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the national environment minister.

Ecobreves – PERU:: New Anti-Desertification Center Announced

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru's National Human Resources Institute (INRENA) is working with Brazil to set up a Regional Anti-Desertification Center, which will include the other countries that share the tropical forests of the Amazon.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Anti-Rabies Campaign Under Way

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan Ministry of Health launched a campaign on Mar. 20 to vaccinate 1.6 million dogs and 30,000 cats in rural areas to prevent rabies in the wake of a prolonged drought.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: ChevronTexaco Supports School in Indigenous Area

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An agricultural technical school attended by 400 children and adolescents in the Orinoco Delta, in eastern Venezuela, received 75,000 dollars from the U.S.-based oil giant ChevronTexaco for building repairs and equipment

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.
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