Tierramerica

Conservationism Has Not Reached the Seas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Since 1962, the year of the first World Parks Congress, the number of protected areas has jumped from two million square km to over 18 million today. But barely 0.5 percent of the earth's seas and oceans are included in that category.

Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR: Barrels of Dangerous Toxin

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A third of the 92 barrels with the dangerous agro-chemical toxaphene, abandoned in the eastern Salvadoran city of San Miguel, are damaged and are contaminating the air, soil and water, report environmental groups, including CESTA-Friends of the Earth.
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The Hubble's Days Are Numbered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
If no new maintenance missions are sent, the useful life of the magnificent telescope-satellite will come to an end in just three years. Much depends on a renewal of space exploration efforts by the United States.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Replacing Maize with Soy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A tropical mold has forced maize growers in the northeastern Honduran department of Olancho to replace that crop with soy, vice-minister of agriculture José María Ordóñez, told Tierramérica.
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World Ozone Day

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The scientific community estimates that the ozone layer, which filters the ultraviolet rays of the Sun, could recover its density by the middle of this century. Recent studies show an improvement, a closing of the so-called ozone hole, but only in the upper stratosphere.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Reusing Urban Wastewater

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers at the University of Brasilia, who have been studying water reuse since 1996, support local projects with the aim of saving 60 percent of urban water consumption.

Investment: The Hidden Green Agenda at WTO's Cancun Meet?

By Gustavo Capdevila and - -
Conservationists fear that the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, Sep. 10-14 in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, will launch negotiations on rules that could undermine environmental policies.
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Plan for Nicaraguan Canal Reborn

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A feasibility study for an inter-ocean route "bigger than the Panama Canal" will be ready by the end of the year, say Nicaraguan officials.

Protected Areas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
There are 100,000 protected areas around the world, which together would cover an area larger than China and India combined. But very few provide benefits to the communities that inhabit them. Some 2,500 delegates are meeting in Durban, South Africa until Sep. 17 to discuss the problem, under the auspices of the Fifth World Congress on Protected Areas.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL:: Demands to Eliminate Farm Subsidies

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Heads of state and of government meeting in Cuba urged the WTO Fifth Ministerial Conference, this week in the Mexican city of Cancun, to speed up the process of progressive elimination of agricultural subsidies.

Ecobreves – PERU:: Alcohol Replaces Lead in Fuel

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru will begin to reduce the proportion of lead in 84-octane gasoline by mixing in ethanol -- ethyl alcohol -- a non-contaminating substance produced from sugarcane.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: A Call to Protect Wetlands

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Non-governmental organizations in Argentina are proposing a "protected corridor" along the northeastern border, the country's principal source of freshwater.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Minister Replacement Criticized

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexico announced a swap in the post of environment minister Sep. 2, winning condemnation from environmental groups.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: 5,000 Trees Planted

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 5,000 trees were planted in the first month of a reforestation campaign carried out by residents of the southern Honduran community of Orocuina, in the highly desertified Choluteca department.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Marine Park Clean-Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Costa Rican citizens are joining a global environmental campaign by cleaning up the National Whale Marine Park, on the Pacific coast, where tourism has taken its toll, says the United Nations Environment Program.

Ecobreves – CUBA: New Orchid Discovered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Scientists in Pinar del Río, 170 km from the Cuban capital, discovered a new orchid species, the Encyclia cajalbanensis, in the Sierra del Rosario forest, a mountainous zone of this biologically rich western province.

Ecobreves – CHILE:: 'Polluting' Cemetery Declared Illegal

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Citizens groups in Chile convinced the nation's Comptroller General to declare illegal the construction of a cemetery in a Santiago area ceded by the Housing Ministry without conducting an environmental impact study.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Swapping Waste for Food

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipal government of Libertador, which covers two-thirds of the Venezuelan capital, is taking in debris and solid waste and handing out food in the poor southwestern neighborhoods, inspired by similar programs in the Brazilian city of Curitiba.

Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR:: Waste Treatment Plan Underway

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Lawmakers, environmental authorities and municipal officials in El Salvador have set up a commission to draft a plan for sanitary landfills

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Mining Companies Rejected

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Officials and residents in seven of the nine municipalities in the southern Honduran department of Valle have joined forces to reject the presence of foreign mining companies because of the environmental destruction they cause.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA:: Mayan Juridical System Revealed

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The recently published "Global View of the Mayan Juridical System" consolidates the principles and values of the millenniums-old Mayan culture, says Santos Mendoza, leader of the Waqxaqi'Noj Indigenous Defense Office.
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